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Mic Check: An Occupier's A to Z

Danny Schechter | Posted 03.13.2012

Danny Schechter

Every social movement I have been involved with, or covering, develops/invents its own language of liberation, its own alphabet, and its own buzzword...

Bachmann Accuses Republican Rival Of 'Crony Capitalism'

AP | By WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.06.2011

AUSTIN, Texas -- Rick Perry brags that Texas has created more than 1 million jobs during his 10 years as governor, trumpeting the state's hands-off re...

Rita Wilson Talks 'Boomers'

Posted 12.03.2011

Huff/Post50's editor-at-large, Rita Wilson, asks fellow post-50s to reflect on the energy, drive and (perhaps) condescension inherent in the heavily c...

Google Ngrams

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

We've now spent half the day playing with Google's new ngram app that by searching all the digitized books, allows you trace the usage of a word over ...

Google Tool Explores 'Genome' Of English Words

The Guardian | Alok Jha | Posted 05.25.2011

These are just some of the questions that researchers and members of the public can now answer using a new online tool called the "Cultural Observator...

Calling The Grammar Police!

Posted 05.25.2011

We've all griped about grammar before and our popular series of Grammar Pet Peeves slide shows has shown that Huff Post Books readers are a legion of ...