Industry favored | Work for jobless | Reverse course. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Nov. 25, 2025.

"What the Redistricting Task Force has laid out is a more nuanced approach that has a better chance of gaining public ...

On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of ...

For law school applicants who dutifully rush to submit their applications in the fall, mindful of the rolling admissions process, it can be agonizing to wait many months for a decision. It is as ...

The proof is in the pudding. Students who are uber-wealthy or attend a private school routinely receive higher non-academic ratings, and they’re literally twice as likely to be admitted to elite ...

The alligator is a magnificent and fearsome creature that symbolizes the Everglades. Whoever named the criminal detention ...

Letters: A processor will butcher a deer at no cost to the hunter and provide the venison to local food banks for ...

In one undated letter, Chomsky, a retired MIT professor, told an unknown recipient that he met Epstein “half a dozen years ...

The more your mental hamster wheel turns, falling back to sleep seems further out of reach. “Waking up in the middle of the night with racing or intrusive thoughts is very common and is actually one ...

So many hurdles previously stood along the route to college admission, it’s become a part of popular culture. “Everyone thinks we’re sadists—that we like saying no,” noted Tina Fey in her role as a ...

Ishraq Khan, CEO and Kodezi Inc., is a self-taught coder who began programming at eight and launched his first startup while still in middle school. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and later moving to the ...