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.

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

This week, The New York Times published an opinion essay about the growing importance of the “disagreement question” in the college admissions process amidst the fraught political landscape of ...

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

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

This post was updated July 20 at 7:30 p.m. Writing the perfect email or outlining the perfect essay isn’t the end of the world – but climate change is.

“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,” ...

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.

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

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

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.