Mike Davis

A collection of matchbooks from Southern California maps a vanished mid-century commercial corridor, long displaced by fire and time.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

From the Black Panthers to the Communist Party, radical Los Angeles in the ’60s was a seething cauldron of unrest, united by the brutal repression of the LAPD.

A conversation with Mike Davis about what must be done to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – and all the other monsters still to come.

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

The current level of fire danger is so high that the U.S. Forest Service has described them using the color purple, to signify “extreme.”

City developers, RAND Corps dropouts, Latino activists—and Lena Horne, taking direct action against racism in Beverley Hills.

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.

A meditation from 2007 on the connection between wildfire destruction and suburbanization in California.