Is liberalism “smug”? In an essay for Vox, Emmett Rensin says yes. “There is a smug style in American liberalism,” he writes. “It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting ...

When various reports came out last week revealing that the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) would disproportionately hurt segments of the population that favored Donald Trump in the presidential ...

A few weeks back, Education Week reported on a new survey of what teachers had to say about homework. The results were illuminating. Forty percent of teachers said they had assigned less homework over ...

President Donald Trump has, in the past three years, retweeted white nationalists, British Islamophobes, American Islamophobes, QAnon conspiracy theorists, Pizzagate conspiracy theorists, and, on Aug.

The only thing worse than smug married couples are smug married couples who crossfit. I went to a wedding a few weeks ago and bumped into a friend I've known my entire adult life but only see every 3 ...

It was used to describe Labour MP Emily Thornberry after her infamous Rochester tweet. And it was how Lily Allen dismissed Band Aid 30. Can any other putdown be so damning? There can be few more ...

One of Twitter's most famous anonymous political personalities has debuted an NCAA-style tournament dedicated to "liberal hacks," pitting many members of the mainstream media against each other in a ...

There's a very funny episode of "South Park" called "Smug Alert!" which pokes fun at drivers of hybrid cars. In it, Kyle's dad buys a hybrid and attempts to convince the entire town to go green. He ...

Arrogant showoffs who overestimate their own ability crop up in all parts of our lives. These people are "smug snakes" and demonstrate what's known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect - and irritatingly can ...