George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...

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 ...

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” ...

From someone who has called Boston home since the early 1990s, it feels like a civic obligation to wish you a Happy St.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...