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 06.02.2009 | 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 06.01.2009 | 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 05.30.2009 | 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 05.18.2009 | 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 05.09.2009 | 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 05.06.2009 | 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 04.23.2009 | 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 04.15.2009 | 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 04.11.2009 | 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 04.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday tapped Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.29.2009 | 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 03.27.2009 | 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 03.16.2009 | 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 03.08.2009 | 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 02.21.2009 | 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 02.17.2009 | 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 02.09.2009 | Politics
This was originally published as an exclusive commentary for Washington Monthly. Barack Obama must begin rebuilding federal agencies fast--or risk se...
Colorado Independent | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Hurricane Katrina victims take note. Michael Brown is safe. A series of wind-whipped wildfires north of Boulder, Colo., have forced the evacuation of...
USA Today | Posted 01.31.2009 | Politics
Thousands of cottages housing hurricane victims on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will be vacated next month, even though many of their occupants aren't r...
Eric Tang | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
The improbable victory of Joseph Cao gave Republicans something to gloat about in the wake of its November defeats. But Republicans may soon learn that they're getting more than they bargained for.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
The colossal failures of the Bush administration should be what is remembered about Bush's eight years in office, not some feeble attempt to show what a principled guy he was.
Harry Shearer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
FEMA was the poster child for federal incompetence, according to the consensus media narrative of the New Orleans flooding disaster. But the true poster child was and is the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.30.2008 | Green
The Kafkaesque mobius strip of bureaucratic delays and excuses in New Orleans contrasts interestingly with the long-ago Jackson Square promise by the president to cut through red tape.
The Hill | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics