Pope Francis marks the fifth anniversary of his election as pope March 13, and while five years is not yet a long pontificate, it is long enough to begin to consider how it will be remembered. After ...

TikTok is rolling out a new feature called Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, a tool already used by platforms like X (Twitter) and Meta. Footnotes allow everyday users to add helpful, factual ...

MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...

Answering the question, 'what do footnotes do?' many scholars would argue instrumentally, stating that they document references, accumulate authority, and demonstrate scholarship. Yet to a reader, the ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

IT is always enlightening to examine the footnotes in a court decision, as they illuminate the reasoning behind judicial verdicts and deepen our understanding of how courts resolve legal disputes.

Although Chicago style can appear intimidating, it’s nothing more than a comprehensive guide for writing within the humanities and liberal arts. Footnotes are convenient. Say you’re reading a history ...