When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The ...

Writing in cursive might be a lost art in the next few decades. While it was a school staple in elementary grades, it fell out of favor in the last few years. Currently, only 23 states require that ...

Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

A long time ago, there was once something called handwriting. The ancient system of putting ink to paper (or papyrus) ultimately became rarer and rarer, especially as, during the 1990s, an increasing ...