In preparation for surgery, I was given a questionnaire with five simple but probing questions to give the surgical team insight into my psyche. How would Americans answer it?

I inherited my parents', grandparents', and great-grandparents' love of their country — and their sadness over what could have been.

It’s the most underappreciated problem facing education this fall: the absence of non-academic student activities that give rise to new connections and ideas.

She’d been waiting to list her Coachman with RVs4MDs, a volunteer group that matched the RV owners with medical workers in need of temporary housing.

Can Bach and his interpreters save the world?

When the uncertainty of this long coronavirus pandemic moment threatens to swamp you, turn for solace to a reliable anchor: the constancy of the natural world.

We keep leaving each family stranded, as if the frightening dependencies of old age and illness are a brand-new individual emergency.

It was like a trumpet rally. “Me, too,” said the man behind her. “Me, too,” said the one behind him. Even the unhappy lady at the end of the line, cooling her high heels, murmured something.

Tuesday's Democratic National Convention created a sentimental, patriotic, and a much-needed reminder of what it is that makes America great.

Keeping the musical soul of the city alive is harder than ever.