"Tropic Thunder" director/actor Ben Stiller in 2008 promoting the problematic movie, in which Robert Downey Jr. wears blackface. (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press) My first unpleasant encounter with ...

Why She's Problematic: In the original book that Carol is based on, The Price of Salt, Carol Aird is 32 years old, and her ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Honestly, we were all fine with Jennifer Lawrence until she made a rape joke. OK, maybe not all of ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

With more than four billion people around the globe owning a smartphone, researchers are now looking at ways to reduce a growing public health concern-problematic smartphone use. Dr. Susan Holtzman ...

My first unpleasant encounter with the current meaning of the word “problematic” occurred a couple of years ago. I was mingling with some twenty- and thirtysomethings at an outdoor birthday party in ...

One word’s meteoric journey from academic jargon to mainstream language to over-used cliché. Before getting to that, let’s look at what “problematic” means when we say it these days. It’s currently ...