Our National Parks Deserve Better Than Trump ^52.3%

Washington Monthly - By James D. Zirin - 7/2/2026, 8:46 PM

Negativity Bias 39.1% - Biased Writer Voice 34.7% - Appeal to Emotion 25.4%

The National Park System, which will be flooded with visitors this summer, has a bipartisan pedigree. Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service law that established our system, but Teddy Roosevelt’s setting aside millions of acres of public lands gave it substance. Ulysses Grant signed the law creating the first national park,... more