The country has been debating gun regulations for months. Later this week, a Senate committee will start work on various proposals, including a background check on every gun sale and a ban on assault ...

In the 1952 Florida Senate race, George Smathers campaigned against incumbent Claude Pepper in the democratic primary, using this characterization attributed by journalists of the day as key to his ...

The New York City Department of Education is giving it a solid try by proposing to elminate 50 “loaded” words from their standardized tests – words such as dinosaur, birthday, television, rock ‘n roll ...

Battlefield Vegas, the indoor gun range just a short shot from the Strip, doesn’t quiz customers about their stance on gun control. But if people are going to debate the issue between bursts of ...

(RNS) — “Words move hearts,” Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf has famously said, “and hearts move limbs.” And when particular words are misapplied, they can move limbs to violence. Since the Israel-Hamas ...

The words tumbled readily from Josh Hawley’s lips as he argued for doing little in the wake of the Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado, massacres. That’s reason enough not to let them tumble from the rest ...

When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...

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