The New York Times’s Letters to the Editor column invites a wide range of voices to share their thoughts. Sometimes it fosters real-life connections.

Students shouldn’t use AI to write their college essay—but this year, Duke is asking applicants to write a college ...

Led by a trained professional, you gather at the beach while spotters search for turtles coming ashore to lay their eggs. If ...

One of Trump’s next steps, on July 18, was to sign into law the Genius Act, establishing federal rules for the issuance of ...

Survival of the country, survival of our personal happiness, our peace of mind, our ability, even willingness, to get along ...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor, shares how her administration would address transportation.

“People yell at me about what I say sometimes about Palestine, and what’s going on in Israel. And they call me a bad Jew,” ...

Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, shares how his administration would address transportation.

Federal budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health and others are affecting graduate students at Cold Spring Harbor Lab working on breast cancer and other topics.

I take a walk with my 24-year-old son Jukie every day. For both of us, these walks provide most of our exercise and our opportunities for meditative wonder.

In the soul searching that the Democratic party has begun, that is perhaps the point that stings the most: a sense that they ...

A few weeks ago, the editor of a literary magazine told me: “I can’t tell who wrote the essay I’m reading.” The piece in question had sailed through a plagiarism check, but a few too many sentences ...