Google first showed up as a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary back in 2006. It was a milestone moment of sorts for the search giant, which by that point was already so ubiquitous that its very ...

In his book “No Man is an Island,” Thomas Merton wrote, “If instead of trusting in God I trust only in my own intelligence, my own strength, and my own prudence, the means that God has given me to ...

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Every year, new words, and new meanings for old words, are added to the dictionary. Recent additions included shortened words such as “vax” and new verbs such as “gaslight” that previously had been ...

Historian Timothy Snyder reminds us that the fight for democracy has always begun with ordinary Americans—through civil disobedience, economic pressure, and creative acts of resistance. “Democracy is ...

"I am most free when I am in connection, because I know my liberation is bound up with yours," writes author Dylin Hardcastle Dylin Hardcastle is an award-winning author, artist and screenwriter. They ...

This piece first appeared in Common Edge. Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa is the author of more than 300 essays in 30 languages as well as two dozen books. His landmark volume The Eyes of the Skin ...