One important rule of writing, one I too often break, is to choose words carefully with the intended audience in mind. For ...

Last September, professors at elite American colleges finally began to admit what has been apparent for the last dozen years: Their students cannot read. No, they are not illiterate. But they cannot ...

"67" is an ambiguous slang term made popular by Gen Alpha on social media and in middle schools across the country.

The festive season will soon be upon us, which means mingling and chatting at parties and family events. How do you keep the ...

Teenagers are likely to be the most familiar with the 2025 Word of the Year. Dictionary.com announced Wednesday that the ...

The post Trump regime isn’t fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way appeared first on Salon.com. On ...

Yumna Kassab, the inaugural Parramatta Laureate in Literature, has used an unconventional medium to describe life in the ...

The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today ...

In my previous essays, I have written about the economic and human cost of paper records in our hospitals. We already know ...

By Nigel Westmaas “Nah tek yuh mattie eye fuh see.” - Guyanese proverb (“Don’t rely on someone else’s view, see for yourself.”) One of the striking ...

Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political ...

High treason, a crime so often alleged in our public discourse and so seldom proven in an actual court of law, is now more of a metaphorical device than a felony. It is passing strange that the law of ...