On the social internet, our fascination with analyzing the hidden messages in our culture has been flattened into one word.

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Calder McHugh is a reporter at POLITICO Magazine. Brendan Bordelon is POLITICO’s AI and tech influence reporter. On a partly cloudy February day in Berkeley, California, Sen. Bernie Sanders learned ...

I only kept it in because it wasn't load-bearing. It was just a fun, silly elaborate word to use in the midst of an otherwise ongoing punchline. You can still use long words and be a sort of moron. Or ...

Whenever Mary Beard walks past the Pizza ­Express near the British Museum she is reminded of a lunch she had with a senior ...

Discursive is a nuanced adjective used to describe speech or writing that tends to wander from the main topic, often moving across multiple ideas without a clear or direct structure. It can also refer ...

I couldn’t give take-home assignments anymore. Handwritten tests in class wouldn’t work either. Somehow, I needed to fill ...

In her first interview, Mel Curth spoke with The Oklahoman about Samantha Fulnecky's essay on gender norms that sparked a ...

When I taught short fiction writing, I used to quote writer Meg Wolitzer on the pleasures of the form. “You will find ...