Violence, whether political or otherwise, is not acceptable in a civilized society. The killing of Charlie Kirk is a terrible example of such an act. To take a young man from his family by violence ...

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published. By Gina Kolata Letters ...

Commercially grown mushrooms are kept in the dark at critical stages and fertilized with excrement, among other things. It is probably a good idea to inspect mushrooms before putting them on your ...

Years ago, I watched helplessly as my wife fell, landing on her tailbone. Within a decade, she began to lose her speech. I have always thought the two events were related. I expect that's why I have ...

Have you ever wondered, constitutionality aside, about the moral and ethical implications of the U.S. Congress allocating money the government doesn’t have? Indeed, it has little prospect of ever ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Once again, the hypocrisy of those on the right astounds me. The recent submissions from the ...

In the three years since large language models went mainstream, the number of new authors publishing a high volume of letters to the editor in scientific journals has also surged. Researchers say ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. On Nov. 1, the rose-colored glasses came off. When Affordable Care Act open enrollment started ...

For the past five years, Minnie has been the person collecting, reading, editing and putting together the letters to the ...

As Ellen Taylor pointed out in her recent letter, Trump wants his legacy to be one of a peacemaker which is in apparent contradiction to his renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War ...

Editor’s Note: The deadline to submit letters relating to candidates in the upcoming election was Oct. 20 to allow for all letters to be published in the paper by the start of early voting on Oct. 25.

TO THE EDITOR: President Trump recently criticized the Smithsonian Institution for focusing on “how bad slavery was.” Trump was partially correct as chattel slavery was a great era for some people: ...