Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

Protestors hold up signs with faces of the Prairieland defendants outside of the Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via ...

Tracie A. Harbison texted an acquaintance, asking, “U need a half of confetti?” When he replied yes, the two arranged to meet. But Harbison wasn’t delivering party supplies. According to a federal ...

Once outlawed as obscene, D. H. Lawrence’s novel was meant to heal the world’s sickness about sex. Instead, it mattered most as a legal milestone, a pop-culture shorthand, and a meme. The war was ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Historian and journalist Walter Isaacson writes that the Declaration's second sentence 'defines an enduring mission.' ...