Opinion

As Dianne Feinstein prepares to step aside, don’t forget what she has meant

It was the right call to hang it up. But it was surely not an easy one for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), even at age 89. A preternatural tenacity has kept California’s longest-serving senator going during a political career that has spanned more than half a century, with fate occasionally stepping in to give it a push.