Susan M. Blaustein

Jan 10, 2025 | msmagazine.com | Susan M. Blaustein

As we enter 2025 at what seems to be a heyday of impunity for human rights abuses worldwide, autocratic leaders worldwide are taking note. In countries rich and poor, these leaders are flexing their muscles by curtailing our rights—to speak our minds, control our bodies, vote our consciences and have access to fundamental things as safe shelter, clean water and affordable nutrition, education and healthcare.

Feb 2, 2024 | cqpress.sagepub.com | Sara Toth Stub |Susan M. Blaustein |Travis Fisher |Cato Institute. Written

OverviewJust three weeks after Hurricane Idalia, a Category 4 storm, hit North Florida in August, Caryn Stephenson had cleaned up and reopened her flooded souvenir shop on the barrier island of Cedar Key. “We knew this building was going to flood, but it was set up for it,” she said. Water came in, but extra layers of concrete and drains prevented permanent damage.

Oct 31, 2023 | nextcity.org | Susan M. Blaustein

Most people, in thinking about the most dramatic impacts of climate change, imagine the damage that will be wrought on rural and coastal areas. In drought-stricken regions susceptible to crop failure, and in riverside communities prone to flooding, the harms inflicted by extreme weather events have been crippling and costly to address.