Have we become a society where large numbers of people fear speaking up because of the potential consequences? Is that the America we want? My email over the past week has been heartbreaking. The ...

Of all the things I’m sorry my children missed — music on MTV, The Love Boat on Saturday nights and playing Pac Man at an arcade — their biggest loss is never writing letters. A 20-gallon plastic ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Last week we dropped my two sons off at their first overnight camp. They are 9 and 11. They will spend almost a month there, and we will be here, at home, feeling weird about things. Since the only ...

Until last month, I had never written a letter to any elected official. In fact, until last month I don’t think I’d written any letter at all, except to my middle school pen pal or on the back of a ...

Researchers are often asked to write references or recommendation letters. Nature asked three senior scientists what they do when they can’t endorse someone. I’m a neuroscientist in the United States.

Writing romantic love letters can feel like a prehistoric practice these days—where do you even get stamps? (Kidding. Kind of.) But for most of human history, if you wanted to express your feelings to ...

Surprise! You see two different forms of the lowercase print letter "g" all the time, but there's a good chance one of them plays tricks on you. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

All too often, people feel that they’ve already mentioned everything worthy of note in their resume, and, unfortunately, their cover letters just become shortened, regurgitated versions of that same ...

Writing love letters isn’t just for Louisa May Alcott's novels or period pieces about the Civil War. Love letters are a real and wonderful way to spice up your relationship, remind your man of the ...

The women say they were treated like dogs and told that their children would be given up for adoption. They lied awake at night, wondering if their kids were safe. But even after being reunited with ...