Think of it like “Where’s Waldo?” for the anti-Trump movement: Last Saturday, as some 7 million people filled American cities for the latest “No Kings” protest, many of them showed up wearing ...

Centuries before BLM, there were civil rights slogans and symbols. #BlackLivesMatter, #TakeAKnee. Slogans, symbols and emblems have proven to have the power to fuel social progress and advance the ...

The symbol for female (left) and male (right). If you've ever navigated your way through a set of public restrooms, chances are you've been confronted with these glyphs: ♀ for female, ♂ for male.

Occultus, the Latin root for “occult,” points to the hidden and the obscured—an apt source for a word steeped in mystery. For centuries after the term’s wider adoption, it has continued to suggest the ...

The nature of signs is that they are codified elements that link and connect an element with another in a chain of association, encoded by our memory systems. Symbols have aspects of this sign ...

From the earliest human records, angels have been described as mysterious beings who communicate in ways humans often struggle to understand. Unlike ordinary humans, who rely on spoken language to ...