Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As we have entered the post-Trump era, marked by the forty-fifth president’s absence from the White House, from Twitter, and ...

The word “lesson” gets a bad rep. We associate it with a formal classroom setting, automatically giving many PTSD of homework and school. That goes doubly for the Hebrew equivalent of the word “lesson ...

There’s a story, a parable, on giving over lessons by the Maggid of Dubno that I really enjoy, so I’ll just repeat it here: There was once a man walking through a forest and as he walked, he noticed ...

There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

“The media reporting that Trump spread ‘baseless insinuations,’ ‘inaccurate claims,’ or ‘falsehoods’ felt deeply dissatisfying. The word that signals both untruthfulness and reproof of it is “lie”—and ...