An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems

In 2012, Southern California was besotted with an unlikely celebrity: a telegenic mountain lion who had crossed one of the state’s most perilous freeways, seeking a territory to call his own.

The country is confronting insurgency, banditry, mass kidnapping, communal violence, and organized crime, with the nature varying significantly from one region to another.

If you think politics in America could not be more acrimonious than it is right now, don’t bet on it. It’s about to get much worse, unless we, the American people, do something about it.

In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Point-in-Time count recorded roughly 745,650 people on a single night, a 3% decline from 2024’s record and the first year-over-year drop since 2016.