Washington MonthlyOpinion

Remembering Jesse Jackson’s Poetic Synthesis

I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...
Queerty

Valentino’s partner gives moving speech at his funeral, shares the last words they said to one another

Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, better known simply as Valentino, died last week at the age of 93. His funeral took place at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs in Rome ...
Psychology Today

Want More Gratitude? Start Using These Three Words

This post is part of a mini-series on seven principles for living gratefully: the principles of gifts, abundance, precarious goodness, prioritizing goodness, promoting goodness, nourishing reliance, ...
TweakTown

The Right Way to Use Microsoft Word on Your Smartphone

If you've ever used Microsoft Word on your smartphone, you've likely found it cramped, slow, or just plain frustrating. But that usually happens only when you don't use the app correctly. The mobile ...
lex18

Ex-funeral home worker admits to stealing nearly $12,000 using identities of deceased children

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A former Lexington funeral home employee has pleaded guilty to federal charges after prosecutors say he used the identities of deceased children and young adults to defraud a ...
The New York Times

The Filthy Word That Filmmakers Swear By

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity. By Julia Jacobs Produced by Rumsey Taylor Tim Herlihy had far exceeded his allotment of ...
NPR

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That's ...
Omaha.com

'Ghost of university future': UNL faculty hold jazz funeral for programs on chopping block

LINCOLN — It started with the thwack-thwack-thwack of a snare drum. Members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's American Association of University Professors chapter and alumni march outside ...
New York Post

Disgraced ex-CNN anchor Valerie Hoff DeCarlo, who quit journalism after using N-word, dead at 62

A disgraced CNN anchor who was ousted from the journalism industry after she used the N-word in a private exchange with a black source died at 62 last week after a battle with lung cancer. Valerie ...
NPR

The use and misuse of the word 'ideology'

The word "ideology" has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents' beliefs as dangerous, stupid or unfounded. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald ...
People

Republican Lawmaker, Whose Daughter Has Down Syndrome, Condemns Trump's Use of the R-Word

“This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences,” Mike Bohacek said iga.in.gov;Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty ...