A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings. compiled by the executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
A rare appearance by the actor Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, brought heart and humor to the ceremony’s celebration of TV history.
A tribute to a true theorist of democracy
Readers write in about ‘The Black Family in the Age of Incarceration’ and more.
Frederick Douglass’s 1866 essay for The Atlantic on how Congress can cope with a chief executive who refuses to recognize the rights of all citizens
A Maine couple defies the odds -- and helps to build community in the process.