Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Because it's hard to indoctrinate people in a math class. (Thanks to John Sullivan for the link.)

Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, from Shepler's ferry. Click to enlarge.

Another strange thing about Scotland (so it seemed to me) is the lack of garbage receptacles in public spaces. In the United States, there are garbage receptacles everywhere: on sidewalks, in hotel lobbies, in airport and train terminals, in malls and stores, and elsewhere. There were many times during our visit to Scotland when I searched in vain for a place to throw my trash (such as a gum wrapper). I'm not saying that there were no garbage receptacles, but there were far fewer than I'm used to. Nor am I saying that there was trash on the ground, for the place appeared clean. Maybe people carry their trash around and dispose of it when they get home. Any ideas as to why there would be fewer garbage receptacles in Scotland?

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Here are the final minutes of today's stage of the Tour of Switzerland, which wraps up nine days of hard racing. The descent in the rain was treacherous. By the finish, a few miles later, the sun was shining. Notice how happy the stage winner (a young Colombian) is.

To the Editor:

Re “Is the Sanders Agenda Out of Date?” (Op-Ed, June 16):

Mark Schmitt argues that Bernie Sanders’s agenda won’t shape the future of progressivism in America because his proposals are out of line with the thinking of new progressives, who are focusing on building on the Affordable Care Act rather than substituting a single-payer health care system; increasing capital requirements at big banks rather than breaking them up or restoring the Glass-Steagall Act; and giving workers more security in the gig economy in addition to raising the minimum wage.

They also want to push companies toward sharing more profits with workers rather than redistribute income through the federal government.

In reality, the future of progressivism lies in Senator Sanders’s ideas and all these others. They’re not mutually exclusive. But none of them have a snowball’s chance unless we reverse the increasing concentration of income, wealth and political influence at the top.

Wealth and power are inextricably connected. That was Senator Sanders’s central message. The first step for progressives, therefore, must be to mobilize the vast majority of Americans to reduce the power of big money in politics.

ROBERT B. REICH

Berkeley, Calif.

The writer, a former United States secretary of labor and currently a professor of public policy at U.C.-Berkeley, is the author of “Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.”

This woman has a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Notice how she insults those of us who admire, respect, and support Donald Trump. Proof that even women can be assholes.

This op-ed column by a Stanford political scientist gives a misleading picture of atrocities in the American West. For just one example of Indian atrocities, read this firsthand account of the Fetterman massacre by an Army surgeon, Samuel M. Horton. I'm a lifelong student of the American West, and I can say without the slightest hesitation (or exaggeration) that the atrocities committed by Indians were far more frequent and much worse than those committed by whites. I laugh whenever I hear someone say the native peoples of North America were peaceable. They were savages. The world was a better place when they were forced onto reservations.

Donald Trump is speaking in Phoenix. Here is the live stream.