A number of terms have been coined in recent years in an effort to make sense of the climate crisis. Language, after all, is a living thing that constantly mutates to keep up with reality, and as our ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article features language that may be hurtful to readers. On an April episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show. “The word ...

For thousands of years, humans have turned to words to process emotion and make sense of life’s hardest moments. We tell our stories around campfires, confide in friends, write in journals, and talk ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

Tariffs are President Trump's favorite word. That's not an exaggeration. "I always say 'tariffs' is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary," he said at a rally just hours after his ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

In the beginning was the Word. -John 1:1, King James Bible I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. -Emily Dickinson, Letters Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most ...