Dagnabit, I just love cursing. It relieves stress and feels good. Polite society has considered the use of vulgar language to be associated with low intellect, but studies are showing the opposite.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Edwards was fined $100,000 by the NBA on Sunday for using profanity during a live television interview, with the league increasing the amount after penalizing the Minnesota ...

Timothy Jay, a scholar in the science of swearing, has a few choice words about why we curse and how to cut back (if you want to). Timothy Jay, who has spent a career studying profanity, recently ...

Why is swearing increasing? There are many reasons, of course, why Americans are using profanity more often, seemingly without regard for what other people think. Timothy Jay, a longtime scholar of ...

Colino is a contributor for TIME. Colino is a contributor for TIME. Many of us try to suppress the urge to blurt out an expletive when something goes wrong. But the instinct may actually be useful: ...

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz took to the stage last week in Madison, Wisconsin for a campaign rally, he delivered a series of rapid fire, profanity-laced quips. Walz said that Elon Musk, the ...

I suppose I could try to blame the journalism profession and its tradition of profanity. But I’ve been cursing since fourth grade, when we ran around the playground playing a version of tag that ...