Evan Osnos on how the rise of the ultrarich—and their increasing detachment from reality—could be the downfall of democracy.

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Yeva Yatsyk lost her school in a missile strike. What she didn’t lose: her voice. She wrote a powerful essay from Kharkiv for Scripps News — raw, poetic, and full of hope.

A prestigious law school journal reportedly told minority applicants they would get extra points for writing essays about their race despite a Supreme Court ban on racial […] ...

Is that really the case? According to a recent study by scientists from MIT, it appears so. Using ChatGPT to help write essays, the researchers say, can lead to “cognitive debt” and a “likely decrease ...

Vassev learned this lesson because a friend once called him out for relying heavily on AI during an argument: “Nik, I want to hear your voice, not what ChatGPT has to say.” That experience left Vassev ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...

Students should construct an introspective, sophisticated essay sharing their assets. Then, students need to show ...