Thursday Styles News Today

Readers criticize the code as weak and unenforceable. Also: The Trump trial; an optional Regents exam in New York; Anne Frank; vaping among the young.

What should be done with the empty space? Also: Aid to Ukraine; a climate emergency; what home organizers see.

Readers discuss Paul Krugman’s support for a fee for driving into Midtown Manhattan. Also: The Trump case; competency tests; Barbie pink; George Santos.

Readers analyze China’s motives and President Biden’s response. Also: Layoffs done remotely; future cringe; doctors via email.

Readers blame the G.O.P., but also the Internal Revenue Code. Also: China’s population; crowds at the Louvre; work clothes for Missouri politicians and nonbinary people.

Readers discuss a growing push by conservative groups to ban certain books. Also: Big Oil and the climate crisis; the balance of nature; shopping at Bergdorf.

Readers debate the value of having children learn to write in cursive. Also: San Francisco today; nuclear threats; child care; domestic burdens.

How New York is dealing with migrants. Also: Kanye West and Adidas; Rishi Sunak, Britain’s new leader; the conservative record; Brooklyn Heights.

If it does not, the hearings will have been “a cruel tease,” one reader opines. Also: Gender terms; postpartum care; gun maker liability; moral injury.

Readers respond to Pamela Paul’s first column, about “lived experience.” Also: Those who golf; women’s office clothing.