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 ...

Imagine a scene in which a man is sitting on a park bench reading a book. A woman comes up and sits beside him. He looks up at her. She hands him a letter. "It's over," she says. If you were to see ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just came across this standing requirement, from several orders by Judge Mark Goldsmith (E.D. Mich.): The Court prohibits the use of excessive footnotes in briefs. A brief supporting a motion or ...

Whether footnotes in legal writing (whether briefs or opinions) are necessary and/or appropriate is a longstanding controversy. Opinions are mixed, and it is difficult to discern a consensus. Some say ...

Hoping to combat inattentive, lazy or uninterested students, the authors of Stats: Modeling the World titled their introductory chapter “Chapter 1: Stats Starts Here.” They explained their methodology ...

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 ...

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 ...