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Stephen Colbert was the late-night host we didn't know we needed until we really needed him. And by we, I mean the majority ...

After more than 3,000 episodes of television stretched over 20 years and two TV networks, this critic believes Stephen Colbert's greatest legacy as a host and performer comes down to a single word.

A picture inflates the perceived truth of true and false claims. Trusting research over their guts, scientists in New Zealand and Canada examined the phenomenon Stephen Colbert, comedian and news ...

This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. My annual "Award of the Year" goes to Merriam-Webster, the dictionary guys, for giving their "Word of the Year Award" to the word "truthiness." ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We live in a dangerous world. Fortunately, we've got Stephen Colbert ...

When "The Colbert Report" premiered five years ago this week, we didn't quite know what to make of it. Sure, "The Word" segment, in which Stephen Colbert introduced the semi-neologism "truthiness," ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When it comes to the use of words, people (and dictionaries) generally fall into two camps: They use words the way they were ...