When the reporting on Burma seems against all odds to truthfully reflect the awful situation there, it's hard for us to be roused even to a simulation of moderate interest.
A Rand report on Mississippi echoes, at a lower pitch, what's happening in the Crescent City: the recovery is being slowed by a lack of workers, created by the lack of any place for working people to live.
The Fox cop series K-Ville has a tendency to take New Orleans cliches and twist them into new forms -- hence the invention, on the pilot episode, of the hitherto unknown custom, "gumbo parties."
The Corps may have come up with the coolest freebie at this week's military-equipment convention in the nation's capital: a "stress ball" in the shape of a hard hat.
If the same technology, embodied in the same infrastructure, can be used either (or both) for peace and war, one's ability to detect preparations for war is seriously, if not fatally, compromised.
A new program to take up the slack in New Orleans is being announced by: the feds? Nope. The city? You gotta be kidding. No, by private foundations.
Everybody thinks they know the role FEMA played in the response to Katrina in New Orleans. What people still don't realize is the role the US Army Corps of Engineers played in designing that disaster.
Unless one of the SoCal arsonists is proved to be a federal employee, the government's involvement in the causation of Louisiana's woes is the primary distinction between the Katrina and the SoCal wildfires.
BOSTON--Sunday's NYT runs a piece on California officials mulling changes in development strategies in the wake of this week's fires. Two nuggets: th...
Duncan Hunter thinks Congress would "reward" California for its exemplary behavior. Is Congress punishing another area for its "behavior" during another disaster?
Like Britain, Germany and Italy before it, Spain has dealt with its terrorism problem, at least for now, without resorting to war.
