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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to playwright Kenn Adams about his formula for creating or analyzing stories called the Story Spine.

No AI tool could have written The Declaration of Independence because it required human intuition, creativity, and ...

AI detection tools promised a clean solution to the internet's growing slop problem. What they've delivered is a coin flip.

Aimee Bock filed a notice of appeal after being sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for her role in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. She was ordered to pay back $243 million and was ...

The New York Times recently analyzed public meetings of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, seeking insight into how members of his administration speak to him. That analysis found that flattery plays a ...