Measured in terms of Integrated Kinetic Energy at landfall, Sandy was bigger than Katrina...

... and second only in modern records to Hurricane Isabel in 2003. Sandy only had Category 1 winds — while Katrina was Category 3 — but it ...

Did Chris Christie "sudden love-in" with Obama hurt Mitt Romney?

"Sudden love-in" is the Washington Post's terminology. There is no professed motivation for Christie’s newfound feelings for t...

What standard of living should others feel moved to lift you up to? Question 1: What's your "social context"?

We saw in that NYT article about the "FUCK! I'm in my twenties" girl Emma Koenig that her mother had to do some analysis befo...

"In other cities, charter schools exist in spite of the system. Here they are the system."

Says John White, the superintendent of New Orleans public schools. The results are encouraging. Five years ago, 23% of children scored at or...

"If I invoked the Insurrection Act against her wishes, the world would see a male Republican president usurping the authority of a female Democratic governor by declaring an insurrection in a largely African American city."

"That left me in a tough position. That would arouse controversy anywhere. To do so in the Deep South, where there had been centuries ...

Why are there so many serious novels about 9/11 and so few about Katrina? — asks Chloe Schama who thinks it's just shameful.

She says: In the aftermath of the attacks on the Word Trade Center, many of the most famous authors of our time have weighed in on the attac...

Drudge is giving Obama a hard time this morning.

There's this at the top : Drudge dogged him back in the spring of '08 for looking dorky on a bicycle. You'd think his people wo...

"White House in P.R. 'panic' over spill."

Says Politico. They can't pontificate about Bush and Katrina anymore. Wouldn't it be amazing if Obama were to empathize with Bush...

Finishing the debate in transcript form, I give the win to Richardson.

I think I got about two thirds of the way through the debate last night. Here 's what I managed to write. I was just about to watch the ...

Edwards.

He said he would say he was running that then he did . Do I need to post about stuff like this? A news thing happened. Ah, what the hell. Th...

The shift in Bush's Iraq rhetoric.

According to the WaPo: President Bush shifted his rhetoric on Iraq in recent weeks after an intense debate among advisers about how to pull ...

Unintended comedy, economic news reporting division.

The NYT just needs to bring us down , for some reason. All the economic news is good, but Vikas Bajaj, on the front page of the paper today,...

A new dimension of post-Katrina anger.

There is the suffering that Hurricane Katrina caused for the people of New Orleans, but there is also the enlightenment Katrina brought abo...

"Paris is burning, civil war, war zone, race riots -- the headlines, especially on TV, often have no nuance."

That's one of many complaints by the French about the bad press it's been getting. Your country is going to hell and you're beg...

Signs of a Rice candidacy.

Is Condoleezza Rice running for President? It was Ms. Rice's second trip to the [South] since Hurricane Katrina, when she and other memb...

Wilma.

How can it be that there is another Category 5 hurricane? And here we are down to the "W" name. It's just a coincidence, isn...

"Now it's like, 'What's "South Park" going to do this week about Hurricane Katrina?' "

The tribulations of Matt Stone and Trey Parker : "I don't know what we're going to do. We should do an episode about how the to...

Impossible to restore the complex culture of New Orleans?

Consider this: Before Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was a majority-black city. It also was a poor one, and most of the people hardest hit b...

Looking for "Creeole Ladde."

A couple weeks ago, we were talking about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, here , and a reader who called himself herself "Creeole ...

"The real question - putting it baldly - is whether there is going to be a revolution."

A BBC opinionwriter muses about the American response to Hurricane Katrina: Will the American social and economic system - which creates the...