Readers on the Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson’s tic during the awards ceremony and the aftermath I don’t think anger should be aimed at the BBC for broadcasting the N-word (I was at the ...

Actor has ‘no hard feeling’ towards Tourette activist John Davidson, but says BBC’s failure to edit out slurs kept her awake at night and brought tears to her eyes Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku, winner of ...

"Hey kids, spelling is fun," and in 2026, spelling just got a little more Swiftian. Dictionary.com's latest winter word drop officially added "Swiftie" to its digital archive. The term joins fellow ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...

The columnist-musician Sean of the South (aka Sean Dietrich) lived in Tallahassee for “a hot minute,” as he put it. The folksy future humorist had moved into an apartment and was ready to study at ...

Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this ...

Google has apologized for publishing a news alert on the recent N-word outburst at the Bafta awards that outrageously included the slur. The post promoted an article about an audience member with ...

After an attendee at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) who experiences involuntary verbal tics yelled out the n-word toward Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, many viewers were left with ...

Doing the work of an educator is tiring. Doing it right is even more tiring. A few months ago, I felt this degree of exhaustion before returning from winter break. It was the Friday before we were ...

Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler has criticized Alan Cumming’s on-stage apology after the N-word was shouted by a Tourette’s campaigner during the BAFTA Film Awards. Cumming briefly paused ...

The NBA’s old-school era was legendary for its physicality, its grit, and its trash talk. But what Vernon Maxwell confirmed on “All the Smoke” podcast goes far beyond anything you’d expect — even from ...