Jennifer L. Selin has received funding and/or support for her research on the executive branch from the Administrative Conference of the United States. The views in this piece are those of the author ...

Disasters. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Terrorist attacks. Climate change. All have the capacity for immense suffering. But such catastrophes also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance the ...

Candidates and commentators in both of our dominant tribes lately claim that every national election is the last chance to save America from all manner of calamities. Then, once elected, our national ...

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As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

Social media posts are recirculating a bar chart that depicts falling numbers of deaths due to weather-related disasters over the last century alongside comments suggesting that the significance of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, professor and founder. Deeply curious about leadership. It is often amid the overwhelming destruction of natural disasters ...

For the first time, the Census Bureau surveyed people that were affected by disasters. The results show that people with disabilities face life-altering conditions like permanent institutionalization.

Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change is making natural disasters more frequent. But the data also show that ...