What I’ve Learned From My Students’ College EssaysMost high school seniors approach the college essay with dread. Either their upbringing hasn’t supplied them with several hundred words of adversity, or worse, they’re afraid that packaging the genuine trauma they’ve experienced is the only way to secure their future.
The Awfulness of War Can’t Be AvoidedWestern leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting hard necessities. Are these things then necessities? Then let us meet them like necessities.
Covering Columbia’s Student Protests Gave Me Hope About Journalism’s FutureIt was 2:30 in the morning and our smaller newsroom up on the fifth floor of Pulitzer Hall—the esteemed Graduate School of Journalism building at Columbia University—was pulsating with the sounds of Camp Rock’s “Can’t Back Down.
Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learningIf you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand.
How the Soon-to-Reopen Folger Shakespeare Library Came to BeThe title page of one of the Folger’s First Folios. Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library Future titan of industry Henry Clay Folger Jr. lived the first part of his life in Dickensian poverty.
Teen graduates after earning doctoral degree at age 17Dr. Dorothy Jean Tillman II was only 10 when she became a freshman at the college of Lake County, majoring in Psychology. In 2020, she earned her Master of Science from Unity College.
The Supreme Court case that could turn homelessness into a crime, explainedGrants Pass v. Johnson could make the entire criminal justice system far crueler. It also tests the limits of judicial power. The Supreme Court will hear a case later this month that could make life drastically worse for homeless Americans.
How American politics has infected investingYour browser does not support the <audio> element. The hedge fund’s branding is a clue. 1789 Capital was set up last year and named after the year Congress proposed America’s bill of rights.
Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AIThese days, we’re inundated with speculation about the future of artificial intelligence—and specifically how AI might take away our jobs, or steal the creative work of writers and artists, or even destroy the human species.
Justice Stephen Breyer's blunt message to Supreme Court conservatives: 'Slow down'Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the high court in 2022 but isn't finished prodding his former conservative colleagues to abandon what he sees as an aggressive tack to the right in how they interpret the law. "Slow down.
How Public School Leaders Upstaged Republicans and the Ivy LeagueThe House of Representatives is one of Washington’s most raucous forums, a free-for-all of personalities with profiles to raise and points to score. But it turns out that the rough-and-tumble of steering a public school district — board sessions, P.T.A.
How American politics has infected investingYour browser does not support the <audio> element. The hedge fund’s branding is a clue. 1789 Capital was set up last year and named after the year Congress proposed America’s bill of rights.
Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, TogetherThe following is the fifth installment of a six-part collaboration with Dirt about “The Myth of the Middle Class” writer.
Why America’s Israel-Palestine debate is broken — and how to fix itIt’s time to take back the Israel-Palestine debate from the radicals on both sides. You may have heard of Shai Davidai, the Israeli professor at Columbia University who has launched a crusade against the school’s pro-Palestinian protestors.
When does 'old age' begin? Public perception may be skewing laterHow old is considered old? The answer to that question appears to be changing as people live longer, retire later and maintain higher levels of physical and mental health into their older years.