Matt Yglesias has a smart piece up at Vox about how the opposition to Trump should stop focusing on his “violation of norms” and focus on the issues: Normalization, in this context, is typically cast ...

The word "normalize" has become, well, normal. Long before Donald Trump became the president-elect, his detractors warned against "normalizing" his myriad violations of campaign decorum: the bigotry ...

In the fight over gay rights, conservative Christians have a new enemy. No, it isn’t a politician or activist or organization. It isn’t a noun at all, in fact, but rather a verb: normalize. In the ...

As mask mandates are lifted across the country, I’ve found myself hesitant to comply. Over the past two years, I’ve found comfort in hiding behind my mask — I quite literally can “mask” my ...

“Normalize” is a word of the moment. But it, along with the idea of normalization, goes back to the 1800s. The earliest uses documented in the Oxford English Dictionary are related to biological ...