Letters: ‘The GOP Is Too Far Gone’
Readers react to one steadfast Republican’s reasons for staying loyal to his party—in spite of the wounds inflicted by Donald Trump.
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Letters: ‘We Need to Resist the Mallification of New York’
Readers grapple with the implications of Manhattan’s empty-storefront problem—for the city, and for urban life everywhere.
Letters: ‘The Term Political Correctness Primes People to Respond Negatively’
Readers respond to a new study showing that the majority of Americans reject PC culture.
Letter: Gary Hart Was Not Set Up
A journalist who reported on Gary Hart’s downfall in 1987 pushes back on the notion that the candidate’s Monkey Business incident may have been staged.
Letters: ‘What Hope Does an Ordinary Black Man Have?’
Readers respond to Jemele Hill’s argument that black men who see themselves in Brett Kavanaugh are missing the point.
Letters: ‘It Is Devastating Every Time I Read of Another Child Who Was Not Protected’
Readers respond to the story of one child’s fatal abuse—and the child-welfare system that failed to save him.
Letter: Laquan McDonald’s Death and the Rhetoric of Police
A reader weighs in on the Chicago Police Department’s culture of intimidation, and describes her own experience processing the shooting of the 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Letters: When the Production of Knowledge Gets Messy
Readers debate the implications of an academic hoax.
Letters: ‘The Supreme Court Has Always Been a Politicized Institution’
Readers discuss the Court’s political past—and its future.
Letters: ‘It Is Clear Now That Republicans Are the Party of Wealth and Privilege’
Readers react to one Republican’s decision to leave the party he identified with for the better part of four decades.