Readers respond to a guest essay by Michael I. Kotlikoff, the president of Cornell University. Also: Fired in a quake zone.

Writing an essay is more than just organizing ideas and presenting arguments—it’s about engaging your reader, much like a ...

About 80 people, from both sides of the border, showed up April 5 for the Via Crucis procession that flowed through the city ...

Teeny Chirichillo won fans’ hearts on ‘Survivor 47’ and simultaneously sparked mass-conversation about his gender identity.

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote ...

The Gujarat government is set to expand the Madhavpur Ghed Fair to several parts of the state, according to an official ... Other such programmes will be held on April 2, 3 and 5 in Vadodara, ...

I think the things that are essential for creating are also essential for living, says poet Maggie Smith. There’s a lot of overlap between making things and just being a person in the world.

Like you, my relationship with essays started in school. And it was very one-sided. Essays were more into me than I was into them. I wasn’t into them at all, actually. I’d be mortified if I was ever ...

Deeply. Maybe that’s why it moved us. Because all of us, in our own ways, carry something tender we try to protect—a part of ourselves we keep hidden, unsure how the world will respond if we ...

Karen Read watches her attorney Robert Alessi make a point during her trial at Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., on Feb. 25. (Greg Derr/AP) ...

In part, it was a matter of class: he didn’t believe that the reports of the lower-middle-class witnesses Queensberry had called would be taken seriously. On the first day of the trial, he turned up ...

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