The snark versus smarm debate has flooded our news feeds, after Tom Scocca’s December 5 Gawker article “On Smarm” took off. The piece asked critics and social media users whether their desire for a ...

You have to give David Denby credit for bravery: Writing a book titled Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation is like writing a book titled Keying My Car: It’s the Wrong ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It's easy to lament that snark is taking over the world when someone is mean to you on the Internet, but is that really true, and what are we supposed to do about it anyway? In 2013, some public ...

Oh great: Yet another dumbed-down MSM rumination on snark, that mix of sarcasm and reductive wit that’s come to dominate modern online discourse. Like all snark attacks, this one quickly traces its ...