Readers criticize the country’s lax gun laws. Also: “The Power Broker” at 50; air-conditioning; phones in school; polluting cruise ships; still summer.
Responses to an exposé about the Acadia Healthcare chain of psychiatric hospitals. Also: Taxes on tips; nonpartisan elections; sitting still in school.
We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.
Audiences saw a hit adaptation of the Japanese story “Shogun” back in 1980. But it was very different from today’s version, and America was different then, too.