How do you critique functional art? Do you base your assessment on its capability or the resolution at which it solves a problem? Is it more important that it succeeds as art? Or is it the overall ...

It’s hard to write about American politics without writing about Congress’s weakness as an institution. What should be the engine of American democracy at the federal level is a sputtering mess, ...

In 2020, Errolson Hugh’s Berlin-based label ACRONYM joined forces with ASUS for a surprising collaboration which came in the form of an ROG ZEPHYRUS G14-ACRNM laptop. It caught the attention of many ...

In downtown Washington, D.C., in a gleaming new WeWork building that’s still mostly uninhabited, one office suite is occupied by a nonprofit called Acronym, a left-leaning digital consultancy whose ...

It has to do with how you say the abbreviation in question.

The acronym, which stands for black, Indigenous and people of color, is suddenly everywhere. Is it doing its job? By Sandra E. Garcia Black Americans have been called by many names in the United ...

The use of acronyms to name clinical trials is increasingly popular yet controversial. 1,2 We evaluated whether the naming of a trial with an acronym is associated with a distinctive effect on ...

For several years, a rumor has attempted to convince people there’s a deeper meaning behind the word hospital. “How old were you when you found out that HOSPITAL stands for 'house of sick people ...

As humans, we label everything. We have this pesky need to categorize ourselves and others — it helps us make sense of the world and our place in it. We use labels to denote our place in our families, ...

This is an ancient marble copy of a shield called the clipeus virtutis awarded to Augustus in 27 BCE and hung in the Senate House in Rome. The central inscription notes its award by the “Senatus / ...