How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." ...

In my previous column, I considered those physical and actual things that separate humans from each other, that separate ...

Cottle: The majority of long-term care — if you’re talking about chronic illness or just age or somebody to watch a parent ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.

It is also the year that Virginia Woolf published her essay, On Being Ill, in January’s volume of The New Criterion – the literary review headed up by T.S. Eliot. The essay had been written from her ...

"You're not getting bored with this, are you?" The answer, if the person speaking were anyone else on earth, would be yes. Watching someone flip through photos of people he says are dangerous ...

Cruising sparks strong opinions, and some questions never seem to have clear answers. From pricing and crowding to food, safety, and onboard etiquette, these topics divide passengers more than any ...

That was part of President Trump’s explanation in October of his executive order that purports to criminalize burning the American flag. Though his words fail as a constitutional rationale, they ...

The risk of a child dying from a COVID-19 vaccine is far lower than dying in a car accident. COVID-19 vaccines are effective in preventing hospitalizations, urgent care visits and long COVID in ...

Ieva Jusionyte, a professor at Brown University, wrote a powerful essay about her inability to process what happened on her campus (“I’m a scholar of gun violence. Not even I can process what happened ...

I’m truly shocked by the Sept. 26, 2025, opinion essay, “Small-Group Reading Instruction Is Not as Effective as You Think ” by Mike Schmoker and Timothy Shanahan. The two longtime promoters of the ...

In the Sept. 26, 2025, opinion essay, “Small-Group Reading Instruction Is Not as Effective as You Think,” authors Mike Schmoker and Timothy Shanahan list shortcomings of small-group reading ...