President Trump’s war against diversity, equity and inclusion is reverberating throughout nearly every sector, igniting a civil rights pushback. But his executive orders ending DEI cannot halt the ...

George ORWELL’s essay “Politics and the English Language”, published in 1946, took aim at the bureaucrats, academics and hacks who obfuscated their misdeeds in vague, jargon-packed writing.

US President Donald Trump has clarified that his past claims about ending the Russia-Ukraine war in just 24 hours were meant as an exaggeration, not a literal promise. In an interview with Time ...

Earlier this year, Colossal Biosciences claimed to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf. The canid species has been extinct for over 10,000 years and features prominently in George R. R. Martin's Song of ...

President Biden's co-chair for the 2024 campaign brushed off Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' comparison of the rampant anti-Israel protests on college campuses to the 1968 election, arguing Biden could ...

North Korea unveiled its first nuclear attack submarine in the eastern port city of Sinpo on Wednesday in a grand ceremony that gestured to the international community that the hermit country can ...

When I taught a course on conflict resolution, students had to write descriptions of conflicts they were engaged in. I required their papers to be crafted in such a way that, if the person they were ...

The Trump era will be remembered as a time of rhetorical excess. The language of our time is tainted by exclamatory superlatives. Screengrab from YouTube/The White House Enough with the hyperbole and ...

As the new school year rolls around, I start thinking again about teaching, and one of the classes I teach is a class on the Psychology of Humor. Humor is a surprisingly complex creative act. The ...