Transportation
Your Long Commute Is Sapping Your Will to Care About Politics
And it's not because time spent in your car is time you can't spend reading Politico.
Time is a key variable in politics. It takes time to read up on candidates, to tune in to debates, to follow the news, even simply to form an opinion on the issue of the day (though some of us are able to do this much faster than others). For this reason, political scientists have speculated that the more free time you have, the more attention you can give to politics and public life.
Little wonder, then, that researchers have started thinking about one of society's most ubiquitous time-sucks: the ever-lengthening commute.