At the top, federal employees leak with impunity. At the bottom, they're at the mercy of an opaque apparatus that masquerades as justice.

In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.

Women are now powerful enough to disrupt the male-dominated consensus that in previous eras silenced them. But they are not yet powerful enough to get justice.

Readers lament the damage sustained by the cathedral—and discuss its rebuilding.