Readers react to the startling admission by Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Also: Private prisons for immigrants; noise in a Queens neighborhood.

I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real,” the Republican senator conceded this ...

Lisa Murkowski has often stood out and stood alone. Time and again she has been one of a few Republican voices willingness to challenge Elon Musk’s unfocused efforts to re-shape the federal ...