Every year, Santa Fe incinerates a giant puppet of Zozobra — a ritual meant to purge anxiety and promote a reset.

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The unknown is the most difficult thing for the brain to navigate.

Readers praise an outreach program on the streets of California. Also: Election panic; the climate stakes; election fraud; questions for Trump and Vance.

It’s what we can do when we don’t know what to do.