So far, America’s plan seems to consist of walling off wealthy neighborhoods with hulking gray fortifications and leaving lower-income areas out to dry. It doesn’t have to be like this.

A “return to normal” is a comforting promise to the winners of the world.

The company's Long Island City offices will be underwater by 2100. The question is whether the tech giant will do anything about it.

To defend against extreme weather, U.S. cities must accept that survival means change—to the economy and also to the country's conception of itself.

In Texas and Florida, political activists are “living socialism” with their disaster-relief efforts.

The GOP's inconsistency on disaster relief is just the latest evidence of the party's procedural hypocrisy.

Managing retreat along New York City's coasts

A tornado puts Oklahoma's Republican senators to the test

Becoming mayor is tough. But not as tough as restoring urban America's two-party system.

Eyewitness Sandy: Reflections on a Disaster.