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May 27, 2026

How One Shady Firm Is Using Reflecting Pool Renovation as a Cash Grab

A National Park Service analysis reveals how one firm is fleecing taxpayers with its contract to renovate the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.

December 5, 2025

Malcolm Ferguson

National Parks Now Free on Trump’s Birthday, but Not on Black Holidays

Donald Trump’s war on Black history continues.

October 8, 2019

Melody Schreiber

The Bittersweet Joy of Fat Bear Week

Alaska's brown bears are still happy and healthy—but probably not for long.

April 10, 2018

Christopher Ketcham

The Future Is the Car-Free National Park

How Washington’s short-sighted fealty to the automobile has ruined the great outdoors

October 16, 2013

Nora Caplan-Bricker

We're About to Default, and the House Is Debating Traffic Cones