Among the synonym connotations listed for "leader" in the dictionary are "superior," "master" and "ruler." Seriously? Across most of human history, the majority of us had a ruler. In fact, most of ...

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life with scientific names. But some of them have problematic histories and connotations. The botanical community is trying to tackle this issue. Since ...

Freedom is such a small letter word but it has wider and different connotations. The emergence of the word can be traced back to the times when modern civilization came into existence and its ...

President Trump has a penchant for breathing new life into expressions with troubled pasts, like "America first" and "enemy of the people." It's not likely his uses of those phrases will survive his ...