The July 4 landslide defeat of the neoliberal pro-war British Conservatives by the neoliberal pro-war Labour Party poses the question of just what the media mean when they describe the elections and ...

A version of this news analysis originally appeared in the Inside Politics newsletter, out Fridays. Sign up here to get it first to your inbox. The dictionary defines “grievance” as “a real or ...

There is too much violence in our politics. I do not mean physical violence. I refer to the vocabulary of our politics. It is violent. The aims of our political leaders are violent. Their aims, ...

Now that Americans have elected a felon to the office of president, we should remember a few facts. First, The White House website has officially eliminated all Spanish-language information from the ...

Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes is the new dictionary for a political vocabulary that was created to leave you bewildered. Authors Chuck McCutcheon and David Mark want readers to ...

There's a new word in this year's political vocabulary: "deplorables" -- first used by Hillary Clinton to describe "half" of Donald Trump's supporters. Trump seized on it as a mistake that betrayed ...

Reclaiming the culture wars requires reclaiming wonder. The family member assumed that her becoming an evangelical Christian meant she had joined a political tribe, complete with gun-culture views of ...

Students of English as a foreign language are often overwhelmed by the semantic possibilities of the verb “to get.” In English, it is possible to get home, to get hungry, to get a snack, to get seated ...

Thanks to Antidumping Laws, Americans Can Say ‘Addio!’ to Italian Pasta Other People’s Kronor: Sweden’s ‘Green’ Investment Fiasco Just wanted to expand upon a thought I shared on X. Here was the ...