People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights organization, is calling on Dictionary.com to change its definition of the word "animal," claiming that the current definition ...

Lisa McGuinness and Leslie Jonath, illus. by Lisa Congdon. Running Press, $18.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7624-4063-4 Less a dictionary that an alphabetically organized discussion of 150 animals, this ...

The public largely supports the use of animals in biomedical research, but only if they are sure that the animals are treated humanely. The scientific community has provided these assurances. Is this ...

Dictionary.com capitalizes the word “Black” in regard to racial identity and has made more than 15,000 other changes to its website, the company announced today. The site’s largest overhaul to date ...

Ivory Frame is a renowned artist. Now in her 90s, the famously reclusive painter remains devoted to her work. She has never married, never had a family and never had a child. So when a letter arrives ...

The Mischief Rule, an article on statutory interpretation that I published several years ago, begins this way: A Tennessee statute imposed duties on railroad engineers. If a railroad engineer found an ...