merriamwebster is keeping track of trending words during tonights debate trumpery or empty talk is one of them dont forget trumpery is a synonym for total garbage they are both a diary and a rumination on the infinite variety of nature dina brodsky the secret life of trees we caught up with the new macarthur fellow video artist mary reid kelley on why the urge to apply makeup is fundamentally human upon the announcement of the 2016 macarthur fellows lets examine the language we use to celebrate their brilliance maybe its time to retire the word genius little nothing by marisa silver is a fantastical book about wartorn eastern europe and the stories we tell ourselves when our lives are in pieces a modernday fairy tale that works to make sense of war