Last summer, in the lull of the August media doze, the Bush Administration’s doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the ...

On the morning of August 11, days after wildfires destroyed Lahaina, a historic town on Maui and the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, residents spotted a boat letting tourists into the sea to ...

On a Hawaiian tourist brochure, fire and water are selling points for a volcanic paradise where lava flows and waterfalls mist. But with hundreds still unaccounted for in the cremated heart of Lahaina ...

A pandemic — we have learned — has three phases. There is an emergency phase, when a wave of casualties threatens to overwhelm the medical system. The immediate priority at that point is to forestall ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Every ...

Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity." ...

When Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted last Thursday on the Ellison family’s purchase of the company, the result wasn’t exactly close. Approximately 1.743 billion shares were cast in favor of ...

Naomi Klein is author of one of the most fascinating pieces I've ever read, "Baghdad Year Zero," in which she talked about her theory of "shock doctrine" and the rise of "disaster capitalism," which ...

Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity." ...