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A few years back (we can’t say how many) we took an American Politics 101 class during our freshman year of college and learned all about the American tradition of Gerrymandering. Aside from the tactical partisan redistricting practice’s funny name, we didn’t think a whole lot of it, and the knowledge quickly sank into an [...]

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]