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October 21, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Kamala Harris Just Got Some Great News
Newly released highly credible polls show her with strong advantages with two weeks left to go.
October 14, 2024
Edith Olmsted
“Hunting FEMA”: Trump’s Hurricane Lies Spark Terrifying Threat
Donald Trump’s hurricane conspiracies are coming true.
October 10, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republican Senator Gives Shocking Defense of GOP’s Hurricane Lies
Senator Eric Schmitt says it’s bad that Kamala Harris is debunking all of the hurricane disinformation.
October 10, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Has Infuriating Response to Calls for Hurricane Aid
House Democrats urged the speaker to reconvene Congress and pass additional funding for FEMA, but Johnson had a better idea.
October 10, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk’s “Free” Internet for Hurricane Victims Has a Major Catch
Elon Musk has managed to turn Hurricane Helene relief into a scam.
October 9, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Fox News Is Having to Fact-Check Its Own Anchors on Hurricane Lies
Sean Hannity drilled down on Donald Trump’s hurricane conspiracies just minutes after a Fox reporter debunked them.
October 3, 2024
Kate Aronoff
Helene Should Trigger a National Rethink of Home Insurance
A for-profit insurance industry is a bad first line of defense against natural disasters. There’s a better way.
August 31, 2023
Marianne Dhenin
How Disabled People Are Left Behind in Climate Disasters
Disabled people are two to four times more likely to die or sustain critical injuries during a disaster.
July 20, 2023
Kate Aronoff
America’s Deadly Heat Isn’t (Officially) a Major Disaster
Why doesn’t the federal government recognize that this extreme weather is a catastrophe?
September 21, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Meet the Ex–Football Player and the Tattooed LGBTQ Physician Leading the White House’s Monkeypox Fight
The monkeypox outbreak has cooled, but it’s far from over. Bob Fenton and Demetre Daskalakis still have a big job on their hands.
August 25, 2020
Kelly Vaughn
“Everything Was Destroyed”
After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Glorynel Ojeda Matos moved her family to Arizona and began a Ph.D. in sustainability studies.
June 2, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Is Puerto Rico About to Give Another Terrible Energy Contract to an American Company?
Prepa, the island’s electric power company, and FEMA have found themselves embroiled in scandal before.
May 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
America Is Not as Resilient as It Thinks It Is
Whether in a pandemic or a hurricane, inequality and underfunded infrastructure are bad for disaster preparedness.
May 28, 2019
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Ted Genoways
River of No Return
How austerity and climate change put northeastern Nebraska underwater
September 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Trump administration diverted FEMA funds to ICE.
July 17, 2018
Emily Atkin
The Troubling Failure of America’s Disaster Response
Trump's FEMA wasn't ready for last year's record-breaking hurricane season, and it wants the public to know that it's not ready for another one.
October 18, 2017
Emily Atkin
Trump’s Dangerous Spin on Puerto Rico’s Suffering
The administration's P.R. response to the island's crisis has been nothing short of a communications debacle—and it's hurting the recovery.
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