What's After Post-Truth?
Some suggestions for other Words of the Year
by Adam Bessie, illustrations by Jason Novak
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The word of 2016 is “post-truth,” according to the Oxford Dictionaries. Here are some of the premature candidates for the 2017 Word of the Year:
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