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Hurricane Gustav should have been political rat poison for the GOP; instead, it became an argument for drilling.

It took Gustav to make Hurricane Katrina a campaign issue.

After Katrina, white parishes are zoning minorities right out of the reconstruction.

Richmond Mayor Douglas Wilder discusses the need to focus on rebuilding American cities from the inside out.

Loan-sharking has resurged with global force, cutting across class, race and regions: we're all in the ghetto now.

Manhattan's El Barrio is facing an uphill battle against a private equity firm attempting to displace low-income residents in a struggle which reflects a growing crisis.

Carl Pope and Van Jones discuss the issues and movements that have informed and inspired their lives and work.

Jim Newberry, Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky says, "The presidential candidates absolutely must have an urban agenda."

The blowback of housing deflation on our overleveraged financial markets has seriously constricted the flow of credit--the lifeblood of the world's largest debtor economy.

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has turned New Orleans into a tragic Tale of Two Cities.