President Trump has recently announced big plans for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The president called FEMA “a disaster,” and told reporters “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” during a visit to hurricane-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina.

If the elimination of the nation's crisis management team during a period of never-ending, mind-bogglingly complex crises seems counterintuitive, that’s because it is. We need FEMA now more than ever, and that need will only continue to grow.

Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.

The president is right that the massive flow of federal disaster funds to states can be counterproductive and even corrosive. This is because the promise of........

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