Students dread the application essay. Critics think it’s an exercise in fakery. Here’s why it’s worth preserving — and how to save it. Liza Libes is a writer and college counselor in New ...

The Education Week opinion essay, “Musk and Trump Are at War With Public Education,” (March 12, 2025) by Arne Duncan and John King has taken on even greater relevance as U.S. Secretary of ...

Joseph Epstein’s disappointment in over-the-top phrasing is appreciated (“The Incredibly Massive Number of Hackneyed Words Is Surreal,” op-ed, April 4). The example that drives me nuts is ...

To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to them. You can submit a Letter to the ...

A fourth recently departed member of Mr. Hegseth’s team, John Ullyot, who had been his top spokesman, accused Mr. Hegseth of disloyalty and incompetence in an opinion essay in Politico on Sunday.

(Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884,” via the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection/The Art Institute of Chicago) Supported by By Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist Every ...

But her principle offense appears to be co-authoring an opinion essay criticizing Tufts’s response to the war in Gaza. Shortly after taking office, Trump announced, “To all the resident aliens ...

Our conversation was inspired by their recent First Opinion essay on the threat posed by the closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of HIV Prevention. “A lot of ...

Trees and grasses have been engaged in a battle for dominance of the world’s land masses for million of years. Neither could score decisive victories and both co-existed in huge swaths of ...

In April's essay, Jonn Elledge explains why everything you thought you knew about the popular self-sufficiency sitcom, first broadcast 50 years ago this week, is wrong. Jonn Elledge Published 10:00am ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Todd L. Pittinsky, professor of technology and society at Stony Brook University. When Harvard University refused to comply with federal demands to ...