William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

As we approach the final days of 2025, I am looking back at the year’s highlights. February began with acclaimed poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s seventh visit to Santa Barbara. This was my first time seeing ...

Does the year 2026 have a message for the collective? According to the practice of numerology, which assigns meaning to specific digits and numbers, the answer is yes. The year 2026's numerology theme ...

Americans are limping into 2026 with low expectations after a year most would rather forget. Only 10% of people called 2025 a “great” year, according to a survey, with the vast majority describing it ...

Layoffs have hit a five-year high as over a million Americans have lost their jobs this year, according to a new Challenger report. The number marks the highest since 2020 and the most since 2009, ...

Employers have cut more than 1.1 million jobs through November, the most since 2020, when companies laid off 2.2 million workers as the pandemic was slamming the U.S. economy, according to a new ...

US employers have announced more than 1.1 million layoffs so far this year — the most since the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report Thursday. Yet ...

The Poetry Foundation has announced the 52 nonprofit poetry-based organizations, publications, presses, and literary arts service organizations that received a total of $1,345,000 in general operating ...

TURIN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 13: Carlos Alcaraz of Spain celebrates victory and ending the year in the Number 1 ATP Ranking spot during the Men’s Singles Group Stage match against Lorenzo Musetti of Italy ...

The Athletic has live coverage of Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner in the final of the 2025 ATP Tour Finals. TURIN, Italy — At the end of a grueling tennis season, Carlos Alcaraz will sit at the top of ...

Austin, Texas — Fourth and fifth graders at Alpha School in Austin, Texas, aren't just learning — they're pioneering education's new frontier. Every click and every keystroke is guided by artificial ...