You can go to the Best Sentences of 2023 here and of 2024 here. Those collections, like this one, wouldn’t exist without your ...

Fox News ran through several brutal examples of the convicted murderers and rapists who had their death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden with legal expert Andy McCarthy on Monday. Earlier in ...

Actor George Takei, who played the helmsman of the USS Enterprise on "Star Trek," recently posted the above image that depicts a strange example of a perfectly logical English sentence. It contains ...

A review of more than 100 court cases found some immigrants saw harsher punishments, even when they have fewer prior convictions. Defendants in these cases said they believe their citizenship status ...

This story was produced in collaboration with The Marshall Project. Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, ...

Here are five examples of work by President Claudine Gay of Harvard that have been spotlighted by critics who have accused her of plagiarism. By Anemona Hartocollis and Sheelagh McNeill Harvard’s ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Last year, I ...

One of the enemies of effective communication is the run-on sentence. Like ambiguity and dangling modifiers, it hampers understanding and makes speech and writing ugly. You should, therefore, beware ...

Every sensitive reader has pet peeves. One of mine is attributing the power of sight to things that don’t have eyes, as in this sentence from the Wall Street Journal: “Restaurant sales are expected to ...