Both parties are now preparing for “affordability” to play a major role in the midterm elections next year. How did it emerge ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

The missing data masked the true extent of the crime surrounding Penn State. The central Pennsylvania department never ...

Jason Furman is as normal as economists get: He’s a Harvard professor. He was chairman of the White House Council of Economic ...

Psychologists have long known that certain linguistic habits reveal how people are functioning internally. For example, ...

Not all words are created equal – and those that sound more surprising are more likely to grab our attention and stick in our ...

The question should be: why is anybody putting any stock in the November CPI report? The BLS basically just made up a lot of ...

The Trump administration called on institutions to be more meritocratic in their admissions processes. But what merit is—and how exactly it should be used—remains a contentious topic in higher ed.

When doctors told her they had to remove her tongue and voice box to save her life from the cancer that had invaded her mouth ...

A new study suggests that swearing helps people “not hold back,” boosting physical performance by nudging the brain into a ...