In his new book ‘Talking to Strangers,’ the author courts criticism — On July 10, 2015, a state trooper named Brian Encinia pulled over a silver Hyundai Azera on a tree-lined street in the city of Prairie View, Texas. The driver, who had failed to signal before changing lanes, was a 28-year-old African American woman named Sandra Bland. Asserting that she was…

Why the opt-out generation should reject its nostalgia bath — Some demographic disclosures: I was born in 1977, two weeks before Star Wars came out. I turned 42 in May. I am a late-edge member of the age cohort commonly known as Generation X. Sometimes the word “xennial” is used to describe people like me and my proximate-age peers, but…