Officials around the country have long struggled to reduce traffic deaths. The city of San Diego pledged to eliminate those fatalities by 2025, but in recent years the numbers have instead ticked up.

The “tortured artist” is a pervasive trope in music discourse, from Beethoven and Robert Schumann to Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. It is perpetuated in popular culture in films like Whiplash (2014) ...