November 5, 2012: Afternoon
- Watch: the grim situation in Staten Island.
- The overall atmosphere was upbeat rather than depressing, but there was a very strong defiant air.
- Donate from afar: an Amazon wish list for Staten Island Sandy relief supplies.
- Photographer explains how he shot the half-illuminated New York cover.
- Beautiful, long-exposure images from blacked-out lower Manhattan.
- A New York artist's flood-line project, begun in 2007, started a conversation about rising water that never took hold.
- Also devastated during Sandy: Chelsea galleries, many of which may be gone for good.
- Horrific accounts of the post-Sandy Rockaways.
- U.S. wildlife populations are surging into human-inhabited areas.
- Former Outside editor of reflects on his role in building the Lance Armstrong legend.
- U.S. suicides increased sharply in the first years of the recession.
- Interactive: 512 ways to win the White House.
- Explained: the most likely paths for Obama or Romney to win the presidency.
- Canadians would welcome U.S. election sore losers.
- Candidates' flaws highlighted in editorials endorsing them.
- Obama and Romney's most commonly uttered phrases and promises from the campaign trail.
- When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, so does the incumbent party—yesterday, they lost.
- Also up for grabs on Tuesday: right to life, right to death, right to marijuana.
- What would happen if we scrapped Congress.
- Postcards from the suffragist era.
- Todd Oldham critiques ballot designs.