For the five authors featured here, words are the engine of wildly different pursuits. A financial journalist decodes ...

Language shapes how we see the world. We use it to make sense of our reality. We use it to label people and things around us. Label something beautiful, and you acknowledge its uniqueness, elevate its ...

After my son, Teddy, was born 16 years ago, we sent a letter to friends and family that announced both his birth and the news that our son had Down syndrome. In this letter, we tried to explain our ...

Picture this. It’s 1983, New Year’s Day. Today, the world’s first outpatient clinic for AIDS opens, Ward 86 at San Francisco General Hospital. Four days later, the first AIDS cases are reported in ...

As parents, grandparents, and guardians, we have an incredible responsibility to be intentional with the words we use. Sadly, our culture has devalued language. Yet words still matter. I’ve sat with ...