Author Archives: Alec Young

As American infrastructure ages, maintaining transportation systems, waterways, internet, and electrical grids is of increased importance. These seldom thought about services provide the framework on which the American economy is run. Not only does infrastructure affect our economic output and convenience but also our energy consumption. Using dated electrical grids, hydroelectric dams, and public transitContinue reading “What’s Next with Biden’s Infrastructure Bill?”

California’s historic drought this summer has brought on a wave of new challenges to some of the largest and oldest growing trees in the world. Severe fires last year killed thousands of sequoias and burned hundreds of buildings. This year things have hardly changed. On Friday, September 20th the base of the largest tree inContinue reading “The Threat to California’s Oldest Trees”

The United States completed its’ full withdrawal of troops on August 30th, 2021 and brought to a close a 20 year war that cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. The dramatic final chapter of what Biden called the “Forever War” seems like a fitting end to an otherwise messy, morally ambiguous, and complicatedContinue reading “The Ending of America’s Longest War: What’s Next?”