A Milwaukee teacher has helped her students win the annual Martin Luther King Jr. writing contest for over a decade. The contest, sponsored by the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and the ...

History offers lessons for a country on edge. American progress has seldom been smooth. It has come through failure and ...

What does it mean to be a man? Piles of books attest that too many men today feel displaced — unsure what masculinity is “supposed” to look like in a world reshaped by feminism. Many don’t know how ...

An analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” urges readers to choose bravely in 2026, use their selections fully and turn choices into meaningful action. An analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” ...

With 2025 drawing to a close, we reached out to Times Opinion contributors for their personal lists. Our algorithmic feeds and all the “helpful” suggestions from A.I. chatbots have only enhanced the ...

My husband, David, has changed through this cancer journey. Although I am a little more than a passenger on this journey, I have learned, too. David finds his priorities shifted. Given the challenges ...

In recent years, a handful of deep-blue states have aggressively tried to offer “free” health care to those in the country illegally only to develop alligator arms when the check arrived. Go figure.

A few days ago I realized with a shock that Advent was nearly over. I’d yet to get a tree, and I hadn’t even begun to hunt through the house for my nativity scene. I’d been so preoccupied with ...

We live in arguably the most innovative and prosperous era in human history. My lifetime alone has seen numerous technological leaps that past generations could never have dreamed of, including the ...

Bukayo Saka has not quite looked like the same player since returning from the long injury he suffered toward the end of last season. The attacker has been a central figure for Arsenal for several ...

Jim Beam pauses 2026 distillation to cut variable costs amid surplus inventories. Company keeps bottling, warehousing and tourism to preserve capital and jobs. Pause reflects marginal-cost logic and ...