As Nov3rd nears its end ...

... I find myself reflecting on its beginning. We were deep in Dubya's second term, and in the midst of the Katrina mess. It was a tense, anxious time, but then, aren't they all? Here's what I wrote in the first lead editorial:

It's the sort of catastrophe that "transcends politics," or so we're told. It's a phrase we hear a lot passing the lips of the best and the most naïve and the most world-weary, each for their own reasons, I'm sure, but even (especially) in the...