America’s Driving Obsession is a Problem

Americans are driving more than ever and it comes at a considerable cost

Before we had children, my wife and I once spent one of the best stretches of time together on a road trip From Washington, D.C. to Connecticut. Over the seven-hour journey, we listened to nearly a season’s worth of episodes of the NPR podcast Serial back-to-back. We debated theories and pondered motives against the backdrop of late summer New England g…