James Carville confidently predicted an electoral win by Vice President Kamala Harris in an op-ed this week, but he also later admitted Democrats have a problem with their “jackass language” ...
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The Politics of English in America

From someone who has called Boston home since the early 1990s, it feels like a civic obligation to wish you a Happy St.
Let’s start with the obvious. Words have meaning. The meaning resides in the mind of the writer or speaker and the reader or listener. It changes naturally over time. It can also shift quickly, with ...
President Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first such designation in the country's history. The order, which Trump signed on Saturday, ...
It is the small hours of the morning and outside the Red Bar in central Belgrade, there are a dozen or so travelling England supporters making themselves heard ahead of a World Cup qualifier against ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As President Donald Trump is expected to ...
Since the publication of his 2018 bestseller, “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale’s Jason Stanley has become a familiar presence on radio and television news broadcasts. The Jacob ...
In his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell wrote, “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues…” Orwell was writing in ...