The New York Times

How to Improve Your Vocabulary as an Adult

Crossplay challenges you to expand your word choices. So how exactly do you do that? By Julia Carpenter Almost every day for the last 24 years, my father and I have traded emails about ...
Christian Science Monitor

How Minneapolis protests fit into the larger struggle for civil rights

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
6abc News

Limerick Board of Supervisors vote to send a letter opposing a land swap for proposed data center

LIMERICK TWP., Pa. (WPVI) -- It was a full house at the Limerick Township Board meeting on Tuesday night in Montgomery County. The meeting took over three hours. Ultimately, the board voted that they ...
Nextgov

Trump admin launches US Tech Force to recruit temporary workers after shedding thousands this year

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. After pushing hundreds of thousands of government employees to leave their posts and dismantling many government technology units, the ...
Variety

Taylor Swift’s Docuseries ‘The End of an Era’ Is Savvy About Giving Swifties More of What They Want Most — Kameron Saunders and Her Other Dancers: TV Review

The first two installments of the six-episode series are entertaining, absorbing, emotional... and surprisingly eager to spotlight fan-beloved supporting characters. Or maybe Swift and her directors, ...
MLive

Muskegon waterfront rezoning approved ahead of controversial land swap vote

MUSKEGON, MI - The rezoning of two waterfront properties that are part of a proposed land swap were narrowly approved by the Muskegon City Commission on Monday. Both the Fisherman’s Landing city park ...
NPR

Energy Dept. tells employees not to use words including 'climate change' and 'green'

The Department of Energy has told employees to avoid using certain words, including "climate change," "green" and "sustainable," according to an internal email sent to staff and obtained by NPR. The ...
USA Today

'Two N-words' video shows Trump refer to racial slur in discussing nuclear threat

President Donald Trump referenced a racial slur during a meeting with top U.S. military leaders in Virginia on Tuesday, Sept. 30. During a 72-minute speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Trump said he ...
The Forward

An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...
Decider

Bravo's 'Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition' Challenges Real Housewives To Switch Lives With Real Wives – And There's Lots Of Tears Involved

Discover What’s Streaming On: Some of the housewives are getting a real wakeup call in the new Bravo series Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition. Premiering Oct. 14, the four-episode reboot of Wife ...
Grist

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...