Mike Davis is the author of the just-published "Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb," as well as "Planet of Slums" and many other works.

Mike Davis's Salon stories

Friday, Nov 21, 2008 03:01 PST

Rescue schools and hospitals first, then build light rail

New infrastructure will become so many bridges to nowhere unless Obama saves human-needs budgets and public-sector jobs.
Monday, Jul 7, 2008 03:08 PDT

Apocalypse now

In a devastating global climate of our own making, how will humans survive?
Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 04:00 PDT

Ignoring Iraq's actual WMD

The real weapons of mass destruction -- car bombs -- are hiding in plain view.

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