Writing

The Fox & Friends hosts and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee took their daily shots at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday, floating a conspiracy theory she's a communist "Manchurian candidate" with ghost writers telling her what to say and ask.

The process of linking marks with configuration could have started with Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago.

"I was baffled, and it made me semi-angry because I feel like it's 2019 and we're still having to deal with this."

The student was charged with one felony count of a written threat to do bodily harm or mass shooting.

A gaggle of senior White House officials are rushing to deny writing the anonymous New York Times op-ed that scathingly portrayed President Donald Trump.

He wrote scripts for Star Trek and was once sacked from a job at Disney after just half a day.

"We've been taught for years that focusing on the positive could lead us to success," says the study's author.

The mosaic's multicolored patterns were painstakingly composed of tiny stones—about 3,000 of them per square foot.

The fragment shows the left half of the Japanese character for "shu" (the Chinese pronunciation would be "zhou").

The Book of Deer, written at the monastery, is an illuminated manuscript—embellished with gold and silver—from the Bible's New Testament.

Hippocrates described unidentified parasitic worms in his medical texts 2,500 years ago. Ancient human poop just revealed which ones.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley denies requests for a public hearing.

The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn't just restrictive, it's often just plain wrong.

In certain types of online communication, it's stranger to use a period than not.

We asked good writers to share their worst embarrassments.

The story of how a down-on-her-luck, single mother created her own fairytale ending.

'AI writing bot' Xiaomigbot produced up to 58 articles a day for a Chinese publication.

Dickens and Shakespeare are fine for teenagers, but Dan Brown isn't, apparently.

Profits from her compilation of old diary entries will go toward the girls' writing and mentoring organization.

Beware: Don't write a book that is a duplicate of information anyone can find on the Internet. Nor a summary of what you learned from Googling.

The Martian author, Andy Weir, gives three essential tips for new writers.

It's been a rough year for the pop culture Internet.

We asked successful writers to open up about their worst failures.

Doctor Gonzo's former home in Woody Creek, Colorado, will be open to visitors next year and serving his favorite breakfast: gin Jell-O.

MasterClass, a new Web service, lets you learn from the top minds in their respective fields.

Artisanal pencils are so hot right now.

The iconoclastic musician is reimagining characters and songs from 'The Man Who Fell to Earth.'

American schools don't suck because of STEM classes; they suck because nobody learns how to write.

The poetry of the late writer, written 30 years ago, is collected in a new anthology.

Sometimes it's best to relive the worst of the crop just like we celebrate the best: out in the open.