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Natural Disasters
October 8, 2024
Grace Segers
Misinformation Could Be the Dangerous New Normal for Disaster Response
As the Southeast recovers from Hurricane Helene and braces for Hurricane Milton, a flood of falsehoods and conspiracy theories suggest a future threat.
October 1, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Biden Fumes After Reporter Parrots Trump Lies on Hurricane Helene
Joe Biden angrily hit back at “lying” Donald Trump over his hateful conspiracy on Hurricane Helene.
October 5, 2015
Rachel Riederer
How the Rich Profit from Natural Disasters
August 28, 2015
The New Republic Staff
The Flooding of America
July 28, 2015
Thomas Wahl, Shaleen Jain
Floods are Getting Worse, and America’s Coasts Are Unprepared
June 17, 2013
David Dayen
Unnatural Disaster
How mortgage servicers are strong-arming the victims of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado (among others)
September 19, 2005
The New Republic
Katrina
How the government failed the people of New Orleans
May 12, 1979
Stephen Chapman
After the 1979 Easter Flood
April 1, 1936
The New Republic
Man-Made Floods

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