I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

Eight years ago, I first encountered the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri. Last Monday, Lahiri visited Brown to lead an undergraduate seminar and participate in a public conversation. My experience that ...

"I’m like there's no way he just wrote 443 letters to every student in here," a student said of Jason Mutterer NBC5 Mansfield Summit High School principal Jason Mutterer wrote a personalized note to ...

Aleysha Ortiz, 19, alleges she cannot read or write yet says she graduated with honors from Hartford Public High School in 2024. She has since filed a lawsuit against the Hartford Board of Education ...

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Meditation is hard. It’s hard to get into a routine. It’s hard to let go of the expectation that you “should” be focused and calm while meditating. It’s even hard to not fall asleep while meditating!

The next-day freakout, livid as the most regrettable hangover, over President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday night’s debate, has largely focussed, understandably, on words. Too many times, ...

It is 70 years since AT&T’s Bell Labs unveiled a new technology for turning sunlight into power. The phone company hoped it could replace the batteries that run equipment in out-of-the-way places. It ...