This week marks ten years that I've been thinking and writing about disaster—and more importantly, ten years since Katrina. To commemorate both those things (the former obliquely), I have a piece in The Atlantic today about how the solidarity needed and practiced after Katrina can be an antidote to neoliberalism.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/hurricane-katrinas-lesson-in-civics/402961/