Merriam-Webster’s 2024 Word of the Year is polarization. Merriam-Webster chooses its word of the year based on data, and tracked a rise in search and usage of the word. Other words or terms of the ...

Sharp divides have seemed to define America lately—and Merriam-Webster just made it official. The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into ...

Former President Obama denounced political polarization Thursday, while praising the “power of pluralism” during remarks at the 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago. Obama, who has been back in the ...

For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral ...

Much like an overexploited ecosystem, the increasingly polarized political landscape in the United States — and much of the world — is experiencing a catastrophic loss of diversity that threatens the ...

With high-profile political prosecutions and deepening polarization dividing the country, legal experts and former Justice Department officials told NBC News they fear the United States has entered a ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division ...

The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world — or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise then that the ...

The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world — or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise then that the ...