Columnist Dick Yarbrough, in a humorous year-end article, recounts 39,000 words, political pokes, typos, heroes, and ...

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-San Diego) said President Trump was only being reckless and that focusing on religious conflict does not capture the reality in Nigeria. This was also the view of ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

The Monday edition of NYT Connections arrives with puzzle #925, serving up a grid that rewards pattern recognition and ...

Nigeria seems to be making some progress in our engagement with the United States, against the background of the Trump ...

There is a four-letter word, beginning with an “F,” that is considered profane, but linguistically is one of the most versatile words in English — verb, noun, adjective, adverb and exclamation. I ...

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Swearing enhances the performance of physical challenges, according to a study by a laboratory’s worth of scientists in the ...

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