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Several GOP-led states launch First Amendment battle to knock down firewall between church and state

When it comes to classic literature, the classics can be hit or miss. Sometimes a “classic” is groundbreaking novel that truly stands the test of time, other times it’s a book that reads like something you Sparknotes’d your way through in high school English. While not every novel hailed as…

YOUR VIEWS: From the relevance of semicolons to confusion over their, there, and they’re, our community have been discussing their biggest grammar gripes

A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend:

IN FOCUS: The poor, misunderstood semicolon is under threat. Helen Coffey laments its decline and makes the case for re-educating ourselves on its usefulness as the chicest grammatical tool

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all

GHQ is a wargame—of sorts.