As a copyeditor before I became a writer, I can offer Helen Betya Rubinstein (“Notable & Quotable: Copyediting,” Feb. 1) the first rule of effective nonfiction writing: Never let the reader be ...

Sixty years ago, South Bend, Indiana, offered America a preview of what was to come in the industrial heartland. The Christmas 1963 shuttering of the Studebaker automobile plant foreshadowed the ...