Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you really want to demonstrate your dislike for someone, end a sentence with a period. "Thanks so much." "That's great." "Happy birthday." As a line in an email, a text or a Facebook comment, any ...

I’m meeting my friend Nick for dinner downtown. At 6:30, I feel that cell-phone-sized hum in my pocket, the sensation these days of incoming language. A text from Nick: “Running 10 mins late.” After ...

FAIRBANKS — Lewis Thomas, who died in 1993, is remembered as a physician, medical researcher, dean of the Yale and New York University medical schools, science essayist and poet, and as an etymologist ...

This week, Decider sets its gaze on the most polarizing punctuation mark in pop culture: the exclamation point! More spirited than a period, more assertive than a question mark, the exclamation point ...