In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and ...

Dictionaries were once bestsellers, but between the internet and artificial intelligence, its role in our culture has changed. Stefan Fatsis is out with a new book called Unabridged: The Thrill of ...

Vulnerability is a choice. It is a decision to be open to the risk of pain in exchange for the reward of a deep, existential connection.

“Yinz” is essentially Pittsburgh’s version of “y’all.” It’s used as a second-person plural pronoun, so someone living in Pittsburgh might ask, “Yinz want to get something to eat?” Yinz — sometimes ...

The Atlantic hurricane season produced a normal number of storms, compared to more frequent storms in recent years. But the ...

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.

Some holiday words have more than one meaning, like "trim" the tree. And some meanings have more than one word, like "gift" ...

Each year, the internet gives birth to a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them?

So in 2026, instead of trying to define what a podcast is, I think we need to stop using the word altogether. “Podcast” is ...