The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.

The R-word is making a comeback. Credit: Mashable illustration / Stacey Zhu Once pushed to the margins of acceptable language thanks to campaigns like "Spread the Word to End the Word," the R-word all ...

Its effect can be explosive and painful: Harvard University professor Randall Kennedy has traced the history of the N-word to understand the evolution of the infamous racial slur. Kennedy joins ...

Kambale Musavuli (left), who is a native of the Democratic Reublic of Congo, is a human rights advocate. His friend Ishmael Beah (right) is a Sierra Leonean human rights activist and author of “A Long ...