An image circulating online in late April and early May 2025 authentically showed a Time magazine cover featuring the words, "Hey, Donald" and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holding up his middle ...

If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and literally ...

(CNN) — If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and ...

From triggering tattletales on the schoolyard playground to confronting oppressive and deadly institutions, the middle finger is a built-in feature of resistance and self-advocacy. Since 1995, artist ...

Pope Francis stirred up a bird’s nest on social media with a tweet, now deleted and replaced, extolling the virtues of “the middle finger” as being a reminder about honesty. The Pope‘s viral tweet was ...

British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson once said that the first man who insulted another person instead of "knocking out [their] brains without a word" actually laid the groundwork for ...

Whether you call it the finger, the bird, or the one finger salute, there are many names for the universal sign meaning, “Fuck you.” It’s undeniable that there’s an art to giving the finger; the ...