[The following Rebecca Solnit piece is slightly adapted from photographer Michael Light’s new book, Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, and appears atTomDispatch.com with special thanks to his publisher, Radius Books.] “Oh my God, I’m in hell,” I cried out when the car that had rolled for hours through the luscious darkness of the Mojave night came... Read More

One of the first indications of just how bad it would get was the slew of abandoned Ferraris and Porsches ditched in the Dubai Airport parking lot by foreigners fleeing the country -- and the debts they’d incurred there -- as the 2008 global economic crisis descended with full force. Within months, housing prices in... Read More