Even the best worst year ever – choose the epoch closest to your offended political affiliation – has a Christmas. And every ...

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In 2003, the publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary began bestowing a crown. On Dec. 9, 2024, it selected “polarization” ...

Words that reflect the zeitgeist: 2024 was very online. Ever since the American Dialect Society first selected a Word of the Year at its 1990 conference, more than half a dozen English dictionaries ...

In 2003, the publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary began bestowing a crown. On Dec. 9, 2024, it selected “polarization” ...

This results from a discipline effect (the political costs of abandoning the peg induce tighter ... While it is customary to speak of fixed and floating exchange rates, regimes actually span a ...

Not coincidentally, it was also the name of a chart-topping album released ... of a group or society no longer range along a ...

Not coincidentally, it was also the name of a chart-topping ... no longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes.” In the U.S., political polarization has a number ...

Not coincidentally, it was also the name of a chart-topping ... longer range along a continuum but become concentrated at opposing extremes." Despite the polarization of political and social ...

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