A common sleep recommendation is to limit naps! Wait, what? Anyone who has struggled to get children to nap should be laughing so hard now they might be crying. As a parent of two young boys, I cherish times when they both settle down for an afternoon nap. Certainly, children should be getting more sleep…

In “In Newark, 16-Year-Olds Win the Right to Vote in School Board Races,” published on Jan. 10, Tracey Tully writes:Residents as young as 16 have been granted the right to vote in school board elections in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, beginning in April, after the City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Wednesday lowering the…

The word herculean has appeared in 92 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 14 in “Can the Only Grocery Store in a Rural Michigan Town Stay Independent?” The article is about how the owners of Honor Family Market are ready to retire, but a buyer would face the tight margins of…

Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…

Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…

Do you ever turn to music in times of grief or heartache? What song or songs do you put on when you want to get into your feelings? How have they helped you through difficult moments?In “How Sad Love Songs Tap Into the Chaos of Dating,” Sadiba Hasan writes about how several recent melancholy ballads,…