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Flint, Michigan is not an anomaly.

February 19, 2016 - TomDispatch

Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project reports on how one New York state mayor is addressing the interconnections between municipal budget shortfalls and federal spending on warfare.

April 13, 2010 - TomDispatch

Andy Kroll wanders through the rubble of California's subprime crisis and finds homeowners waiting 10-12 hours in lines for mortgage relief, plummeting property values, and what may be the seeds of more foreclosures to come.

December 2, 2009 - TomDispatch

Michael Klare believes that our transition from petroleum to sustainable energy sources will not be easy, smooth or peaceful.

September 24, 2009 - TomDispatch

Dusty "red snow" in the Rockies, plunging water levels in Lake Mead and California's forest fires are all signs that the West is drying up, writes Chip Ward.

September 18, 2009 - TomDispatch

Likening the impact of the economic crisis to a dirty bomb or a "second 9/11", Tom Engelhardt takes the reader on a tour of what remains of his once-vibrant New York neighborhood.

March 24, 2009 - TomDispatch

Towns and small cities dependent on one or two industries are reeling in the face of the economic downturn and major budget cuts. Can the nation's large cities be far behind?

February 24, 2009 - TomDispatch

The unexpected plunge in oil prices is leading to declining investments in renewables and may prove politically destabilizing, argues Michael Klare.

January 9, 2009 - TomDispatch

A lot of pundits have been seeing in the Obama presidency a chance to invest large amounts of federal dollars on green infrastructure. Not yet, argues Mike Davis.

November 21, 2008 - TomDispatch

Mike Davis wonders if the excesses of Dubai portend a rapidly-warming and deteriorating world of diverging urban fortunes, where a minority live in eco-friendly luxury, while most endure polluted squalor.

June 27, 2008 - TomDispatch

Tom Engelhardt explores the architectural and political significance of the mammoth US embassy construction project in Baghdad.

June 2, 2007 - TomDispatch

Mike Davis on Dubai's plans to become the "luxury-consumer paradise of the Middle East and South Asia."

July 15, 2005 - TomDispatch

America's home-equity-as-ATM-machine scheme is about to explode, says Mike Davis.

April 20, 2005 - TomDispatch

Homeownership has no "mystical virtue" that makes the owner more valuable to society, writes Mark Winston Griffith

March 31, 2005 - TomDispatch

Climate change appears to be the driving force behind conflicts in some parts of Africa. If the developing world wants to head off such conflicts, cutting emmissions must be a priority.

March 2, 2005 - TomDispatch

The impacts of tax cuts and the sluggish economy may mean reductions in spending on social programs and the environment when the budget is unveiled next week.

February 1, 2005 - TomDispatch

A host of economic and political forces are leading to growing concern about the bursting of an "historically unprecedented credit bubble" that could lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy.

January 22, 2005 - TomDispatch

The Iraqi city of Falluja may require more than $1 billion to rebuild; the U.S. is promising a fraction of that.

January 18, 2005 - TomDispatch

The extreme weather ravaging the Carribean and Florida may well be linked to climate change -- but you'd never know it by watching the news.

September 28, 2004 - TomDispatch

Mike Davis warns that concentrated poverty and poor santitation in Asian and African slums could cause a worldwide public health catastrophe.

February 10, 2004 - TomDispatch