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 ...

Disaster capitalism arises when private interests and market logics exploit the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes and other extreme events in the Caribbean, deepening existing inequalities.

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 ...

Disasters have always happened and always will. Sad, but true. Since they cannot be entirely avoided, the focus should be on whether a particular economic and political system exacerbates or creates ...

It’s been one year since the Eaton Fire destroyed thousands of homes in the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena. Ever since, community leaders have been working to ensure recovery doesn’t mean ...

January 12th is one of the most important days of the year. That’s right, it’s the birthday of Jeff Bezos. While ingrates mark the milestone by insolently asking the entrepreneur to stop union-busting ...

Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Holt: c. 2007) exposes what Klein believes to be sinister manipulation of catastrophic events by conservatives. Her other books ...

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." ...