Before we turn the calendar, I want to highlight a few things we explored together in 2025, and reveal my new word for 2026.

If Jeanie from Target had argued back, it could have become just another quickly forgotten hate-spewing video among the millions already stinking up the internet. But she didn’t. She showed ...

Because Lockwood (played by Gene Kelly) saw little “dignity” in the lowbrow vaudeville world his parents immersed him in, he ...

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

For more than a century, residents of growing American cities reshaped their rivers to serve industrial and manufacturing needs. Waterways were straightened, deepened, paved, or buried to support ...

We are one month into the 2025-26 NBA season -- a campaign already featuring plenty of spectacular moments. The Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets played arguably the game of the year in the ...

Try as we might, certain things in sports are ineffable. Even as data and analytics bring more and more precision into the picture, there’s still a magic that exists in between the white lines. The ...

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...

Some of the below terms may be unfamiliar to you now, but they all carry pretty common definitions, per Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com and Oxford Languages. So the words are exceedingly easy to add ...

A serial killer used his last words on Earth to shout-out President Donald Trump on Thursday. "President Trump, keep making America great. I'm ready to go," Glen Rogers, known as the "Casanova Killer, ...

An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...