Like many young people in their first job out of school, Allessandra DiCorato spent her first few years in Boston wondering how anyone made friends. But when the city seemed especially impersonal — when all she felt was disconnected — the words of strangers reminded her that we are anything...

The press isn’t responsible for Trump’s lies or his crimes or his blatant incoherence, writes Steve Almond. But they have fallen into a pattern of ignoring and sanitizing, and thus normalizing, a candidate who is, by any rational standard of political conduct, mentally and morally unfit to hold public office.