Obama, Romney avoid hard truths about energy.

The presidential campaign now nearing its noisy conclusion may be remembered more for what wasn’t said than for what was, especially when it comes to the pivotal issue of energy. We didn’t hear the hard truth about our nation’s energy conundrum.

Our latest high-water mark.

Water up to the attics on Staten Island. Flooded subway and commuter tunnels. Power lost to 8.5 million homes and businesses. We get it: this storm and its impacts are huge. What we may not be getting is why.

Wisely stepping aside in a bombarded city.

The right decision, to call off the New York City Marathon, was only 72 hours late. It could have and should have been made as soon as Sandy stopped bombarding the region, as soon as it became apparent that people had died, and that millions were in trouble.

My Jersey shore, now in ruins.

The Shore is our summer home, and it now lies in ruins, wrecked by a storm that shares a name — in a cruel coincidence — with the most elegiac song ever written about it by our poet laureate, Bruce Springsteen.

Better clean energy choices for America.

The problem is not that Middle America is indifferent to the well-being of the planet or more frequent natural disasters; the problem is that most climate and environmental advocates are indifferent to the needs of Middle America.

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