Last week in Georgia, the police used a taser on an 87-year-old woman, Martha Al-Bishara, who was cutting dandelions with a kitchen knife. The woman, who is a Syrian immigrant and does not speak ...

A lot of people struggle with affect vs. effect, but let's assume that you've got the difference down cold: Affect is a verb (usually), and effect is a noun (usually). But how did it happen that two ...

Hoover famously did it, though people still Electrolux in Sweden. Google is the modern master of it, and eBay, Airbnb and Uber are getting in on the act. But it is still a challenging task to make the ...