The U.S. wants the benefit of hegemony under Trump. It doesn’t want the responsibilities of being the hegemon: ensuring ...

The tragic failures we see in history suggest a fundamental truth about free will. When we choose to do the right thing, we ...

Alfie Kohn’s opinion essay, “AI in the Classroom Is Often Harmful. Why Are Educators Falling Prey to the Hype? ” (Sept. 22, 2025) is one of the more inspiring articles I’ve read in some time. It ...

We want to respond to Bonnie Kutch’s March 17 essay on San Diego’s effort to add missing bike infrastructure to Governor Drive. We all want a safer University City, but the case for a bike lane and ...

In the village of Watkins Glen, families lost power during extreme cold because of what officials described as an overload driven by increased energy demand. The fire department opened as a warming ...

Anne Fadiman's "Frog and Other Essays" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is a modest book -- 192 pages, seven essays, a slim spine you could lose between the couch cushions -- that retains confidence and ...

More than three decades after her highly publicized relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr., actress Daryl Hannah has finally spoken up about it. In an opinion essay published in The New York Times on ...

Consensus on youth gender surgery may be crumbling, according to a New York Times guest essay. The piece acknowledges the growing "cracks" in medical agreement regarding the treatment for minors as ...

The cost and environmental impact of New York’s energy system is too high, and confidence in it is low. It’s not a new problem, but it’s one Gov. Kathy Hochul is addressing with an unflinching, all-of ...

The claim underpinning UNC’s recent move to make syllabuses publicly available is that they are a form of public record. North Carolina legislation — specifically subsection 132-1 — declares that ...

You can’t tell now, but I am writing this column in longhand. I’m on a tropical island (don’t hate me) without access to a computer screen (ditto) and composing a column this way is an enlightening — ...

There have been few explanations from the City of Attleboro, since the November 2025 cybersecurity incident which crippled information systems citywide, except for the public schools. A reasonable ...