Summer

June 16, 2021 Can you believe it is almost summer? Celebrate it with this free summer printable poster featuring pastel fruits and leaves. It comes with a quote that “Summer is a state of mind.” Do you agree with that? What is your favorite time of the year? I’m usually drawn to bold color shades…

WinnerAaron Kim, 16, from Tacoma, Wash., chose an article from the Well section headlined “How to Make a Staycation Feel Like an Actual Break” and wrote:It’s late July already. But, for so much of the summer, it felt like it had not even started. Each day of my break had been so much like the…

And, too, at a time when some educators are alarmed by the ability of chatbots to do students’ work for them, this is a contest that rewards the human touch. As our step-by-step guide to participating shows, what we’re looking for is meaningful personal connections to the news, explored with voice, style and personality —…

As our 13th Summer Reading Contest ends, we congratulate this week’s winner and thank the thousands of students who participated.

What ordinary moments did you enjoy during your summer vacation?

Congratulations to our winner, FengYu Yang, as well as to our many runners-up and honorable mentions.

Congratulations to our winner, Samya Madhukar, as well as to our many runners-up and honorable mentions.

To participate, submit your response here by Aug. 19 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced on Aug. 30.

Throughout the summer, the House committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, sought to lay out the full magnitude of President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. No testimony was more explosive than during a surprise hearing on June 28, when Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, revealed new…

I was carsick, my head aching. But I knew the symptoms were simply panic at the news channel my father was blasting in the car. The commentators’ voices were monotonous, but the flood of incidents they covered was overwhelming. The pandemic. Russia’s war on Ukraine. Global economic collapse. System overload. System shutdown. In “Is the…