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May 3, 2017
Jeet Heer
Is Trump Authoritarian or Incompetent? Yes.
John McCain and Corey Robin say the president's actions speak louder than his words. But this is a false distinction.
April 24, 2017
Graham Vyse
The Democratic Party can’t cuss its way back to political relevance.
January 22, 2017
Ryan Kearney
What Mike Allen doesn’t understand about language.
January 20, 2017
Jo Livingstone
How will the foreign press translate Trump’s inauguration speech?
August 10, 2016
Gaia Vince
Being Bilingual Keeps Your Brain Fit
A journey into the evolving research on the benefits of speaking multiple languages.
July 19, 2016
Lauren Collister
Why Does Using a Period in a Text Message Make You Sound Insincere or Angry?
June 29, 2016
Tim Lomas
How Other Languages Can Reveal the Secrets to Happiness
A limited vocabulary could be limiting your happiness.
April 2, 2016
Adam Peck
The AP Stylebook is finally de-capitalizing the word internet.
January 28, 2016
Shaj Mathew
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Roman Holiday
In her new memoir, the novelist abandons English for Italian.
January 25, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Can a dictionary be sexist? Yes.
January 11, 2016
Laurel Stvan
That’s What Zhe Said: Mx-ing up the Language of Gender
How "they" is going from plural to singular.
December 22, 2015
Esther Breger
Carly Fiorina won’t say the word “vagina” out loud.
December 10, 2015
Anouschka Foltz
How Languages Die
December 1, 2015
Michelle Legro
English teachers ban words like “said” and “good” in a quest to make writing more god-awful.
November 3, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Why I Heart the Twitter Heart
The social network's new icon will enlarge our emotional vocabulary
September 14, 2015
Laura Reston
Donald Trump Is Being Honest With You
July 28, 2015
Adam Nathaniel Peck
Stop Capitalizing the Word Internet
Dictionaries and style guides treat it as a proper noun, but no one else does
June 22, 2015
Sam Eifling
Under a Spell
The spine-tingling glee of the Scrabble enthusiast
May 18, 2015
Steve Friess
When "Holocaust" Became "The Holocaust"
An etymological mystery
April 6, 2015
Lauren Collister
Textspeak Is Modernizing the Egnlish Language (*English)

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