Wasn’t it fortunate and timely, I thought, that just when words started to be the news — as opposed to simply being used to record and report the news —…
Baseball isn’t just America’s pastime — it’s also a linguistic MVP. Over the past 150 years, the sport has enriched our everyday conversations with phrases that most people use without…
Without intentionally searching for them, lines of poetry keep spinning around in my head, leading me to greater truths than I knew I was looking for. A few weeks ago,…
On March 1, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order designating English — and only English — as the official language of the United States. The move has sparked both…
On this day in 1996, the original Pokémon game was released, marking the beginning of a cultural phenomenon. Within just a few years, the franchise exploded in popularity, expanding into…
My instinctive reaction to the broad, undifferentiated cuts to federal departments and programs was skepticism and distress. Would the cuts affect the cleanliness of our air and water, the safety…