The day, honored each Dec. 10, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

This is what mattered to me this year out of the small patch of that million-book forest I managed to walk through.

Adults need to set up rules for students so that it’s not on them to self-regulate when it comes to going tech-free.

As 2025 comes to a close, let’s look back on the most-read opinion essays and blog posts of 2025. Keep reading until the end for relevant opinion content you may have missed this year. Every decade, a ...

Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center ...

We published 227 pieces of original writing in 2025, by nearly as many contributors. Our “Best of 2025” post is a chance to revisit a favorite essay, or discover a piece you missed the first time ...