If you think of humans as the creatures most capable of learning from past mistakes, the ongoing saga of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans after the federal levees breached should give you some pause.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
Darryl Hannah arrested (no, not for public intoxication); Floor fight pending over climate change; Big Three automakers ignored their own consumer research ... The Supreme Court kills a lake.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency ignored the law and misused millions of dollars to build two warehouses after hurricanes Ka...
Mark Kennedy Shriver and Julianne Moore | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
After ten years of unrelenting and unprecedented disasters -- what will be remembered as The Disaster Decade -- only seven states meet Save the Children's four minimum safety standards.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.
AP | LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
MIAMI — Trying to make the best of a bad situation, federal officials might use foreclosed homes as temporary housing for hurricane evacuees in Flor...
AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the nation's emergency management agency Tuesday after a Louisiana Repub...
The Hill | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
With the start of hurricane season just around the corner, the White House did not mince words Wednesday in blasting Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) for pla...
Senate Guru | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
We worry that some Republicans are too influenced by greed or fear or hatred. However, some Republicans are just mind-numbingly stupid.
McClatchy | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate's nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ....
Kelly Caldwell | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
It is not enough to either sit by and hope that each president makes disaster-recovery a priority, or to spread urban legends designed to make FEMA as popular as Guantanamo Bay.
Matt Littman | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Why in the world should we be on the hook to continue paying a staff and a travel budget for the man who caused such harm to this country? Talk about adding insult to injury.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.08.2009 | Media
On his show Monday, Glenn Beck enlisted the help of Popular Mechanics to debunk an internet rumor that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
Meredith Lopez | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living
Poop is not only a topic of conversation among new parents, it's pretty much the only topic for any new parents.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media
Via Media Matters, here's a chyron from this morning's Fox News broadcast, misidentifying Democratic strategist Michael Brown as the incompetent horse...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.15.2009 | Media
Glenn Beck's latest criticism of President Obama's economic policies seems to have been ripped directly from the plot of FOX TV's past hit series The X-Files.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media
While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and BRENT KALLESTAD | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday tapped Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.26.2009 | Politics
The four-year anniversary of Katrina approaches in August. Life in New Orleans has not returned to pre-storm "normality," despite billions of federal dollars that never seem to reach the ground.
Mark Newberg | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics
While we haven't been watching, New Orleans has been working. And now, just as the first signs of spring have arrived, the signs of New Orleans' rebirth are there, if only we care to look.
AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green
LONE GROVE, Okla. — Susan Fambrough clutched her daughter Kaylee's hand to comfort the 13-year-old as a howling tornado bore down on their mobil...
cnn.com | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green
Food kits recently distributed as part of a disaster relief effort in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain peanut butter contaminated with salmonella lin...
Kelly Caldwell | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
Of the many tragic failures of FEMA in the last seven years, those related to housing were among the most conspicuous. And they were caused in part by Congressional blunders.
Giles Slade | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
Politicians are mainly now-guys, welded to the present, forced to react to the remorseless wheel of change with little time to see bigger pictures.
Max Stier | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
This was originally published as an exclusive commentary for Washington Monthly. Barack Obama must begin rebuilding federal agencies fast--or risk se...
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Harry Shearer | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics