The past three years, I have made it a point to pick a word that I want to declare for my new year. Last year, my word was ...

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The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

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Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian ...

For the next few days, until the end of the year, let’s notice all that is good around us. Where do you see compassion, love ...

A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-partisan ...

For Christmas she wears blinking lights or a Santa Claus outfit. For New Year’s she dumps glitter in her hair and dons a ...

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And no one should think this spells the end of Trump putting troops in American cities at his command. Justices Samuel Alito, ...