Last summer, as Americans watched the worst natural disaster in U.S. history strike the Gulf Coast, the news settled into a familiar framework, and a cast of characters emerged. Even as Hurricane Katrina evolved from natural disaster to human-rights catastrophe, the same list of names--Ray Nagin, George W. Bush, Michael Powell, Michael Cherthoff, Kanye West, Sean Penn, Anderson Cooper--continued to dominate the news. From this group of a dozen or so voices, we separated...]]>