Montana has a new law that defines sex as strictly male or female, based on a person’s reproductive system. Gov. Greg ...

The government has announced a new definition of anti-Muslim hate that includes violence, harassment and prejudicial stereotyping - as it insisted the move will not curtail free speech. Ministers say ...

Kathleen Hartnett, the attorney for a transgender student-athlete, was unable to define what a woman is when questioned by Justice Samuel Alito during Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday over ...

A bill to adopt an official definition of antisemitism in New Jersey appears to have widespread support in the state Legislature, with dozens of sponsors signed on from both sides of the aisle. But ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Megyn Kelly is known for offering absurd takes that nobody asked for. But Kelly said ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

WASHINGTON — Dictionary.com announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and it may sound familiar to parents of school-aged children. The online dictionary revealed on Tuesday that its Word of the Year is "6 ...

How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of ...

California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from what’s projected to be over 1 billion meals ...