If you need a break from the Weather Channel, you could check out how Sandy is being reported in unfriendly countries abroad, via The Atlantic‘s John Hudson. It’s the perpetual lead story in Russia, Iran and Venezuela. North Korea is sure to catch up when the carrier pigeons land.

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Ed Kilgore, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, is a columnist for New York.