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A new twist in the arms race for a seat at an elite NYC public high school: Beacon is now requiring students complete their ...

Gandhi Jayanti 2025 brings a chance for students to explore Mahatma Gandhi's life, non-violence and truth. Use these speech and essay ideas full of impact, simplicity and modern relevance.

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In 1986, Robert Chambers committed a terrible crime that became a lurid tabloid fixture and a cautionary tale of class, privilege, and the excesses of the era. What became of Chambers in the decades ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

Mr. Shenk is a historian of modern American politics and has written extensively about the fight for control of the Democratic Party. This essay is the first installment in a series on the thinkers, ...

For decades, Mark Lemley’s life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He’s a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta. “I always enjoyed that ...

I’m still not sure whose idea it was for me to be Casper’s therapist—mine or his. I know I mentioned my profession to him, but I am pretty sure he was the one who engaged me that way. I also know how ...