Over the past few months, dubbing some young lady a “basic bitch” became the “It-Girl” of unoriginal disses. Although there’s no regimented protocol for what exactly constitutes “being basic,” I think ...

Basic and non-basic are the two broad industry categories. Basic industries consist of small and large businesses that sell primarily to external customers. Non-basic industries consist of primarily ...

Kate Moss made it the diss of the year but being basic has a long history, reaching back through Lil Wayne to Sylvia Plath On the evening of Sunday 7 June, an easyJet flight from Bodrum, Turkey ...

This is one of many irksome things our generation does: We’ve built up a language that privileges scathing, post-ironic pseudo-clever callouts, making it hard for people to just like things, or even ...