President Donald Trump is again trying to exert control over American elections, signing an executive order Tuesday that aims to create federal lists of citizens and ask the U.S. Postal Service to ...

In previous generations, dating language was straightforward. We said we were “dating” or “going out,” and if the relationship progressed, we were “going steady.” The words themselves implied security ...

Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized ...

Under the spotlight during a House Judiciary hearing, the DHS secretary denied claims that her department is building a database of anti-ICE protesters Joe Raedle/Getty Kristi Noem denied that the ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) vowed her administration will create a database for New Jerseyans to upload videos of federal immigration officers conducting enforcement activities. “We are putting out ...

An ogham stone in Cornwall, England BabelStone via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers say they are compiling the first-ever dictionary of ancient Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...