catastrophe

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On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the Justice Department’s latest catastrophe and its potentially massive impact on ICE’s authority to continue its courthouse arrests.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

Nearly a month into the Middle East war, Lebanon is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis that now risks teetering over into a catastrophe, the United Nations refugee agency warned Friday.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But like everything else, the object itself is not immune to catastrophe.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Westmoreland wanted to increase American troops in Vietnam to 200,000 in 1965, and that was just to prevent catastrophe.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin