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Why gaslighting is the word of the year

Today, Explained

The President of the United States Is Gaslighting America

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The word has been around since mid-century, but we see a big jump in 2017 and then another jump every single year since. This is a word that has really jumped into the public domain. If we can trace it to any single thing, we can traced it to the teen Vogue article from December 2016. And of course, this is before Donald Trump took office.

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