On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

Students who plan to use ChatGPT to write their college admissions essays should think twice: Artificial intelligence tools write highly generic personal narratives, even when prompted to write from ...

As AI becomes more integrated into daily study habits, both students and teachers are left questioning what truly counts as original work ...

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, your application essay is your superpower. While grades and test scores show your accomplishments, your essay is the one place you can speak directly to ...

Schools tend to leave AI policies to teachers, which often means that rules vary widely within the same school. Some educators, for example, welcome the use of Grammarly.com, an AI-powered writing ...

Have you ever felt shame from a false accusation? It happened to me, and it turned out to be a good thing in the end.

In Patricia Lockwood’s new novel, the main character gets so ill that she wonders whether she’s become a different person.

Manoj Kumar Jha’s In Praise of Coalition Politics And Other Essays on Indian Democracy is a searing collection of essays, trenchant in its criticism of the state of Indian democracy ever since the BJP ...

India's new TDS regulations (Sept 2025) raise tax-exemption limits on interest, dividends, and commissions, easing compliance for senior citizens and small investors.

Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?

David Lewis Schaefer lays out the case that the sixteenth-​century libertarian work On Voluntary Servitude was written by Montaigne, not La Boétie.