Word nerds unite every January 9 and choose carefully their, well, words. While the origins of this holiday are unknown, many ...

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• While no one word could define a dynamic 2024, different dictionaries’ and publications’ ...

The President-elect’s threats to repeal incentives pushed EV buyers into showrooms in the final quarter of 2024.

The word of the year for 2024 should have been “billionaire.” It infested virtually every story about presidential politics.

It says something about the past year when the people who put out the Oxford Dictionary chose “brain rot” as the words of ...

Merriam-Webster has announced 'polarization' as its 'Word of the Year.' We all must stand together to fight division and ...

Do people even read the newspaper anymore? In company with the Merriam-Webster word of the year “polarization,” often used to describe the divided state of the country, and the Oxford word of the year ...

I’m a data scientist and this is why everyone’s talking about it–and just about everyone’s missing the real point.

Between endless doomscrolling and nonstop negative headlines, a New Mexico political science professor said it's no surprise ...

An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up ...