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KATRINA: THE
CONTINUING STORM
On the first anniversary of one of America’s
worst natural and political disasters, TomPaine.com has been documenting
what went wrong in the response to Hurricane Katrina and offering progressive
policy alternatives. Our analysis and commentary on the crisis in the
past year:
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Katrina's
Second Crisis
Continuing
conservative failures have stymied New
Orleans' recovery. Here are ways to respond.
August 28, 2006 03:46 PM
Global
Warming: Connect The Dots
Big
hurricanes, longer wildfire seasons and shorter winters form a larger
picture.
August 28, 2006 11:03 AM
New Orleans'
Housing Fiasco
Residents
displaced by Katrina demand to know why they can't return to decent public
housing.
August 25, 2006 10:39 AM
Mission Not
Accomplished
We
should take the rebuilding of New Orleans as
seriously as we take the crisis in Iraq.
August 24, 2006 09:49 AM
Katrina's
Bulldozer Politics
New Orleans's housing demolition policy
hurts low- and middle-income residents the most.
August 23, 2006 08:41 AM
America's
Eco-Refugees
The
post-Katrina Gulf
Coast is a harbinger
of how environmental changes will force humanity to migrate.
August 17, 2006 09:02 AM
Katrina's
Legacy
FEMA's still running the circus and low-income blacks are
locked out of the new New Orleans.
May 4, 2006 10:04 AM
The Cost Of
Incompetence
Two
stories this week show how dangerous it is to have people who detest
government running it.
March 14, 2006 01:24 PM
Katrina's
Gulf
When Bush visited New
Orleans yesterday, he neglected to mention that
the poorest victims of Katrina aren't getting helped.
March 9, 2006 10:09 AM
Blocking
Progress In New Orleans
Bush
wants market forces to rebuild New
Orleans—the only problem is that there is no
market.
February 16, 2006 09:37 AM
FEMA's Unholy Trinity
One
question not asked when Michael Brown testified on Capitol Hill was why
someone so unqualified got such an important job.
February 10, 2006 11:35 AM
Politics Of
Gulf Coast Renewal
Today, Katrina survivors are protesting policies that
prevent them from returning home or shaping their own communities.
February 7, 2006 09:32 AM
A New
Orleans For All
When
Bush visits today, he'll find a city in desperate need for more funding and
fighting a pitched battle over how to rebuild.
January 12, 2006 12:07 PM
A Smaller
NOLA
Proposed
population of a rebuilt New Orleans ,
based on a plan released yesterday (compared to a population of
500,000 before Katrina): 250,000...
January 12, 2006 11:19 AM
Friedman,
Vouchers And Katrina
In
yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Milton Friedman argued what Katrina
survivors need most is school vouchers.
December 7, 2005 02:13 PM
Katrina's
Green Lining
It may just be that Katrina and Rita have jolted America out
of its climate change denial.
October 4, 2005 09:48 AM
Can Separate
Ever Be Equal?
Republican
politicians want to waive a federal rule that guarantees speedy enrollment
for displaced Gulf
Coast students—which
could lead to serious discrimination and create more red tape for homeless
families.
September 30, 2005 10:48 AM
A Poverty Of
Understanding
With
politicians finally talking about poor people, we need to update our
40-year-old assumptions about who is poor.
September 30, 2005 08:39 AM
Got To Be
Independent
The
calls from both the public and organizations are getting louder: A
congressional Katrina commission just won't cut it.
September 28, 2005 04:25 PM
Keeping FEMA
Out Of Church
If
President Bush truly wants to promote faith-based initiatives, his best
move is to stay out of religion.
September 28, 2005 08:48 AM
Compassion
Litmus Test
For any president,
senator or member of Congress who proclaimed moral outrage at the poverty
exposed by Katrina, here's a chance to show you really care.
September 27, 2005 10:59 AM
From Relief
To Return
As
modern-day Hoovervilles rise, Katrina evacuees
and their advocates shift to calling for the right to go home.
September 27, 2005 09:24 AM
We Must Not
Get This Wrong
New Orleans could become the shining star of
American urban design—or it could again become sharply, permanently
stratified.
September 26, 2005 08:21 AM
Offset This
Don't
believe all the hype over the cost of Katrina and Rita. The real budget
crisis is much bigger—too big for politicians to admit.
September 23, 2005 10:33 AM
Trickling Up
Trickle-down
economics didn't work in the 1980s and it certainly won't work for Katrina
victims.
September 23, 2005 09:30 AM
Voucher
Vultures
It's
political opportunism to try to sell the public on vouchers instead of
rebuilding Gulf
Coast schools.
September 23, 2005 09:27 AM
Damage
Control?
The EPA cares more about its reputation than protecting
Americans from toxic hazards on the Gulf Coast.
September 22, 2005 09:44 AM
America's
Third World
America's bloated military spending
leaves little left over to reduce the rampant poverty exposed by Hurricane
Katrina.
September 21, 2005 09:13 AM
The Bush
Paradox
The White
House hopes we haven't noticed it's running a political juggernaut instead
of governing effectively.
September 21, 2005 09:12 AM
How To Pay
For Katrina
Bush's
tax cuts for the wealthy cost the country more than the total amount likely
to be spent on Katrina.
September 20, 2005 11:47 AM
Sun Rising
Over New Orleans
From the
Katrina tragedy springs an unmatched opportunity to build efficient,
affordable solar homes. Will we take it?
September 20, 2005 09:43 AM
Must-Cry TV
The
nation applauded TV reporters for their emotional coverage of Hurricane
Katrina—but is this good for journalism?
September 20, 2005 08:32 AM
To Rebuild
Or Restructure?
Dems need to recognize that Katrina has exposed more than
just the old debates on the role of government or how to stimulate the
post-war economy.
September 19, 2005 12:43 PM
Toxic Gumbo
Poor
public policy and industry irresponsibility led to the chemical soup
inundating New Orleans and Lake
Pontchartrain.
September 19, 2005 09:48 AM
Markets,
Climate And Katrina
Katrina
revealed the harsh limits of markets and the essential role the government
must play as our climate changes.
September 19, 2005 09:34 AM
With God On
Our Side?
People
like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are much
closer to being "anti-American" than liberals who rail against
Bush.
September 19, 2005 09:18 AM
Sea Change
How we
rebuild the Gulf
Coast will speak
volumes about what kind of society we want to be.
September 16, 2005 11:15 AM
A Dangerous
And Deafening Silence
Only
when politicians discuss repealing Bush's tax cuts will America
finally have the priorities debate we so desperately need.
September 16, 2005 09:40 AM
It's Time
For An Independent Katrina Commission
Demand
an independent, 9/11 Commission-style investigation into the government's
handling of the Katrina disaster. An internal review just won't cut it.
September 14, 2005 04:35 PM
The
Inequality President
Who
knows whether George Bush cares about black people—but there's no question
his policies punish people of color.
September 14, 2005 09:30 AM
Bring Home
The Davis-Bacon
Suspending
laws that guarantee fair wages for the workers rebuilding New Orleans adds insult to injury.
September 14, 2005 08:26 AM
Watch Who's
Cleaning Up
As the
hurricane waters recede, we face another feeding frenzy for the same crony
contractors who botched the job in Iraq.
September 13, 2005 10:38 AM
What Went
Wrong
If we
want to prevent another colossal failure of government, allowing
Republicans to investigate their leader's missteps in responding to Katrina
is the wrong way to do it.
September 13, 2005 09:25 AM
Katrina And
The Emperor
The
calamity of Katrina has exposed Bush's empty rhetoric and strategic
dysfunction, harming our foreign policy.
September 12, 2005 10:27 AM
Rebuild The
Gulf Coast -- And America
Now is
the time to transform our government into an effective instrument for
rebuilding America.
September 9, 2005 12:53 PM
Think Before
You Speak Dept.
The
latest unbelievable utterance from an elected official.
September 9, 2005 11:51 AM
The Titanic
Of Our Era
The
president of TransAfrica looks at why the poor
had no "lifeboats" to escape Hurricane Katrina.
September 9, 2005 11:11 AM
A Phoenix
From The Mud
David
Brooks' op-ed in today's Times represents the wrong way to rebuild New Orleans.
September 8, 2005 11:35 AM
Bush's
Second Gulf Disaster
Obsessed
with the war on terror and privatization, the Bush administration sapped FEMA's ability to prevent crisis.
September 8, 2005 09:19 AM
Katrina's Harvest
Without the ports of New Orleans, the American midwest is heading for an economic disaster.
September 8, 2005 08:36 AM
Hurricane
Katrina Hall Of Shame
Daily
Kos is holding
public officials responsible for things they said or did or didn't say or
do. Soon we'll be hearing Bush surrogates whining about the "shame
game."
September 7, 2005 11:16 AM
Not Our
America?
New Orleans doesn't look like the America we've lived in. But it
resembles the planet we will inhabit the rest of our lives.
September 7, 2005 10:10 AM
The Media's
Labor Day Revolution
Katrina
was the media's late wake-up call on the Bush administration's priorities.
September 6, 2005 09:29 AM
When The
Saints Don't Go Marching In
The Bush
administration turned its back on the most basic of American moral values:
banding together to care for each other in ways no one of us can do alone.
September 6, 2005 09:11 AM
Katrina Puts Estate Tax On Ice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501405.html
September 6, 2005 08:51 AM
FEMA Opts
Out Of Reality
The
thousands stranded and struggling in New
Orleans are there by choice, says FEMA director
Michael Brown.
September 2, 2005 12:45 PM
Beyond
Petroleum
Hurricane
Katrina has highlighted the U.S.
oil supply's vulnerabilities. It also opens the door for smart
alternatives.
September 2, 2005 09:35 AM
Financial
Relief
Hats off
to a group of progressive Dems. They are offering
a common sense response to protect the thousands of families and small
businesses who will be left financially devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
September 1, 2005 06:35 PM
