A recent social media post has brought attention to the usage of the r-word. Many are up in arms about it, while others don’t get it at all. The r‑word has been tossed around for years, usually as a ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

You should go down the corporate path because it’s safe. No, actually, you should go down the entrepreneurial path because it’s freeing and ambitious. No, you shouldn’t remain small, but you should ...

In a previous post, I discussed the idea of positive terms becoming pejorative over time, such as “diva” or “Mickey Mouse.” But the opposite process occurs as well: Words that were once disparaging ...