HOMELAND SECURITY AND SAFETY
The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed
I wrote this for the eighth anniversary of 9/11, drawing on my 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; it felt right to revise and reissue for this twenty-fifth anniversary. A quarter century ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in
UNION SQUAREPENNSYLVANIA
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
"Canadians will have to prepare for a future that's 5 C hotter, according to a new report summarizing the latest science on climate change," says a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report on a Canadian government study, and that sounds mildly alarming if you're not up
TEXASPARISPACIFIC ISLANDS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK
GENDER STUDIES AND IDENTITY
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but philanthropist, humanist, humorist, and – well there's a way she demonstrated that
TENNESSEE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
I've been in northern New Mexico for more than two weeks, in what is normally the monsoon season, but there has been no rain beyond a brief, quickly evaporated spatter of drops three times so far. The plants are parched, and the usual green regeneration of monsoon season
UNITED STATESNEW MEXICO
GENDER STUDIES AND IDENTITY
Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. Andrew Tate is charged with "seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging
FLORIDAANDREW TATE