Mike Davis

Mike Davis is the author of In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire (Haymarket Books, 2008) and Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007). He is currently working on a book about cities, poverty, and global change.

A Day Without Tourists: Tijuana Versus the Plague

May 7, 2009

What Mexico, now the picture of hell to many of us, looks like through local eyes from a Chevy Silverado.
The Necessary Eloquence of Protest

March 17, 2009

If these are near-to-the-end times, we must be as forthright about the need for disorder as were our populist and socialist ancestors.

2008

Human Ecology

June 27, 2008

As human actions change the planet in irreversable ways, will human bonds suffer irreversable damage, too?

People Burn Here

November 1, 2007

Illegal immigrants are the invisible victims of the California wildfires.
Denial in the Desert

April 3, 2007

Abrupt climate change is rapidly turning the American West into a desert. But a culture in denial continues rampant suburbanization, fueled by the delusion that our water supply is inexhaustible.
Car Bombs: WMDs the Surge Can't Stop

March 30, 2007

The favored weapon of the ill-armed and underfunded is the one weapon of mass destruction that the Bush Administration has totally ignored.

Dorothy Healey

August 24, 2006

An appreciation of one of the last members of the left's "greatest generation," known for her physical courage, warmth and intelligence, who spent a lifetime arguing eloquently for socialism, feminism and peace.
Dorothy Healey

August 10, 2006

An appreciation of one of the last members of the left's "greatest generation," known for her physical courage, warmth and intelligence, who spent a lifetime arguing eloquently for socialism, feminism and peace.
Who Is Killing New Orleans?

March 23, 2006

Mayor-appointed commissions and experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city.

Hurricane Gumbo

October 20, 2005

The Cajun and Creole folks of Ville Platte, LA, learned long ago not to rely on the government for help. It the wake of hurricanes they launched a homemade rescue-and-relief effort to save their community.
Melting Away

October 7, 2005

Geophysicists are debating whether recent catastrophic storms signal an abrupt climate change that will trigger seasons of permanent icelessness in the Atlantic and return the earth to the torrid chaos of an earlier era.
25 Questions About the Murder of New Orleans

September 30, 2005

New Orleans did not die an accidental death--it was murdered by deliberate design and planned neglect. Here are twenty-five urgent questions from the people who live in a city submerged in anger and frustration.
Optimism of the Will

September 1, 2005

The rich legacy of former Nation editor and activist Carey McWilliams is on full display in three books.
Letters

August 25, 2005
Avian Flu: A State of Unreadiness

June 29, 2005

America remains unprepared for a possible avian flu pandemic.