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Passenger traffic

Travel Clearances

From descriptions of incidents in which U.S. and U.K. airlines removed Muslims or passengers who were perceived to be Muslim from their flights. Read More

Overhead Comportment

by Winston Choi-Schagrin, Shayla Love,

From newspaper accounts since 2010 of incidents in which airplane passengers were removed or flights were rerouted in response to passenger behavior. Compiled by Shayla Love and Winston Choi-Schagrin.

Travel Day

Photographs of airports by twenty photographers, with an essay by Geoff Dyer

Advertisement for the New York Central System (detail)

21st Century Limited

by Kevin Baker,

The lost glory of America’s railroads

Passengers

by John Schabel,

The returns

by Breyten Breytenbach,

Take my knife, please!

by Harper’s Staff,

In praise of trains

by Lewis Mumford,

Unsnarling traffic

by John I. Snyder,

On the roads, rails, and airways

Hill climbing by boat

by Joyce Warren,