Letter from the editor.

• Author: Nebhun, Elliott
• Position: Editorial

By the time you're reading this note, I'm sure the holidays will seem like a distant memory and you'll be focused on the challenges of the new year.

In this issue of Upfront, we take a look at some of the challenges that lie ahead for America, in 2005 and beyond.

Our cover story focuses on the challenges facing President Bush as Inauguration Day approaches: New York Times White House correspondent David E. Sanger reports that the President has set himself an ambitious, complicated, even risky agenda...