hurricane katrina

The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti -- and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later -- need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions. To offer some, we ask Monika Kalra Varma, director of the Robert F.

Maybe it's not technically the end of a decade. But with the switch from Bush to Obama, it seems as good a time as any to look back at the 2000's--whatever you call them. Whether Time is right that it was the worst decade ever, or that's a bit of an exaggeration, progressives can't argue that a lot happened in the past ten years, and a lot of it was depressing.

You may know Harry Shearer best as the voice of Ned Flanders or Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. Maybe your first exposure to him was in This Is Spinal Tap. You definitely know Harry Shearer. But did you know that he was a child star, a journalist and a teacher? Did you know that he's working on a documentary about why New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina? Or that he's got a live concert DVD with other Spinal Tappers Christopher Guest and Michael McKean?

"Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans" is a shocking story of a murder-suicide that raises questions about the way our soldiers are treated when they return from war as well as about the way survivors of Hurricane Katrina have dealt with the trauma they experienced. Author Ethan Brown talks to Laura about his book and what he learned about veteran Zack Bowen's "cascading circumstances" that led him to kill his girlfriend.