How America Handles Catastrophe
Covering Katrina weakened my faith in the country’s preparedness. The coronavirus has robbed me of it completely.
On the night of Wednesday, March 11, I stepped out of one catastrophe and into another.
My colleagues and I were working late, putting the finishing touches on , an eight-part podcast about the long aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that would be launching the next day. I’d spent the better part of a year traveling back and forth between Washington, D.C.,
