Australia Has Lessons for Los Angeles as It Rebuilds—and Prepares for the Next Fire
Yes, the L.A. blazes were worsened by climate change, say Australian bushfire experts. But that doesn’t mean people are ...
How Wildfires Upended California’s Insurance Market
The fires that swept through Los Angeles in January will have deep and long-lasting effects on the state’s already stressed insurance market.
How California can rebuild safer, more resilient cities after wildfires without pricing out workers
It starts with better building policies that recognize future risks, but there are many other important steps.
R Street Institute1dOpinion
L.A. wildfires exposed a confluence of bad state policy
This column is based on my testimony last week to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative ...
Fire-ravaged Los Angeles confronts difficult questions as it rushes to rebuild
As a charred Los Angeles resurfaces from the infernal flames that engulfed the region last month, questions loom as to how ...
Why California keeps burning: How misguided insurance policies fuel wildfire risk
With the fuel load still looming, before rebuilding, Californians should insist that policymakers allow insurers to establish ...
The Columbian3d
Author’s story of coping after a wildfire resonates
On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, Calif., when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.
Column: We live in Mike Davis’ L.A. — but not the one you think
As someone who has read most of Davis' work and knew him personally, I can say that his writings were cris de coeur more than ...
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Experts Claim Los Angeles is Getting Fire Recovery All Wrong
Soon after catastrophic fires swept through Pacific Palisades and Altadena, wildfire experts Stephen Pyne and Jack Cohen were ...