Category Opinion

A stock character in American crime stories is the maverick cop, the hero who bucks the system and bends the rules to bring in the bad guys. Intrinsic to the macho stereotype is that his (or, rarely, her) shield is…

Let me give you a peak into how I do my job as The Times’ letters editor: I organize reader emails into folders based on topic, most of which I delete after a week or however long people write about…

Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy is driving along I-94 to Mitchell International Airport with his radio blasting Bruce Springsteen’s “Racing in the Streets.” “Now, some guys they just give up living,” Murphy sings along with Springsteen, “and start dying little…