Every year, prospective college students stress over the application essay. They wonder what to write about, how they should write and whether the essay makes a difference. Local college admissions ...

Chanté Joseph on the viral response to her ‘Is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend now?’ essay A few of us at The Boston Globe joke about being on the flashlight team. There’s the Spotlight Team, our ...

Is critique all we have left?” Eric Fordham posed this intriguing  question in the essay he presented at the Philosophy Discussion Group meeting on March 3, 2026. It’s a topic rarely pondered outside ...

A new collection of essays looks at the tortured relationship between the United States and its workers. It’s called “Capturing Labor,” and it’s co-edited by Texas State University professors Jessica ...

Students can find quick revision materials for the ICSE Class 10 Biology (Science Paper 3) exam on Friday, March 13, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., to be completely prepared for the exam. We have ...

The Best American Essays 2025 (Mariner) is an anthology of 21 nonfiction prose pieces written by North American writers in 2024 and selected in 2025. In a word, this selection is encouraging, in part ...

"What does service to your country mean to you?" That is the question the Elk's Lodge poses in its Americanism essay for students in grades fifth through eighth.

It is estimated that every year more than one million bald people fly to Istanbul. They go for two reasons – hair transplant quality and competitive costs ...

From the whirlwind start of the second Trump administration through the war in Iran, Americans have been put to a very difficult task: How are they to make sense of this cascade of events? Last fall, ...

I wanted to feel like, when I made a complaint against my local police department, it would be taken seriously. I wanted an ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the Paul Thomas Anderson movie “One Battle After Another” by the daughter of two Weatherman. Also: Will we be around to unearth a time capsule?

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