Amy Cooper, who has been referred to as "Central Park Karen," is seen calling police to make the false allegation that an African American man was threatening her on May 25. (Christian Cooper ) For a ...

A middle-aged white woman in New Jersey intervenes on the side of the road after her adult daughter is pulled over by local police for not having current registration. The woman flashes her New York ...

It's an awkward time to be Karen right now. Thanks to a recently popular meme, the name has become a label for a privileged, entitled, rude, demanding, insufferable person, typically white and ...

Know what, let’s just ask a Karen about “Karen.” Like Karen Burris, a.k.a. the Chicago children’s entertainer Mary Macaroni, a.k.a. a moderator for the Karens United page on Facebook, a.k.a. a Karen ...

Karen Sun is a far cry from the “Karen” meme that has spread widely over social media in recent years. Aside from a shared first name, Sun — a 23-year-old Chinese-American — doesn’t exactly match the ...

"I know that I'll definitely not have any family members naming their kids after me in the near future." The "Families of the Mafia" star Karen Gravano has a lot more on her plate to worry about than ...

When someone is born, they are given the name of their parents or another loved one. Our names set the tone for our unique, individual personalities. A group of Karens I’ve had the privilege to get to ...

First Karen. Then Ken. Now Brandon. The Internet, and some people, can be unforgiving if you happen to have a name that goes viral. Brandon is the latest name to show up in internet memes — in an ...

This correction is being published in the Chicago Tribune print edition: A Commentary piece on July 2 about cultural memes of “Karens” as examples of privileged and annoying behavior wrongly included ...

A middle-aged white woman in New Jersey intervenes on the side of the road after her adult daughter is pulled over by local police for not having current registration. The woman flashes her New York ...

For a brief period in 2004, long before internet memes made insults so readily sharable, my given name had its moment of mockery. A group of linguists studied the effect of vowel quality in a man’s ...