From Korea to Iran, the United States has employed countless euphemisms that not only obscure the true nature of its wars but also the constitutional limits designed to constrain them.
"Remigration" is meant to soften the real policy goal—forced removal.
The Associated Press’s legal victory highlights the limited power presidents and the press have over the creative destruction and spontaneous order of our language.
One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive use of abbreviations.
Though awkward and antiquated, the Second Amendment’s syntax and grammar unambiguously protect gun rights.
The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.
The president-elect uses conditional grammar to craft self-fulfilling speculative historical fiction.
Populism’s pronoun usage taps into the darker elements of the human condition.
How U.S. presidents habitually use—and abuse—pronouns to deceive.
Posting “Finna be lit” on Snapchat shouldn’t have gotten Nathan Myers thrown out of school.
What happens when cities and counties have their own ideas about a law that authorizes the seizure of guns from people who are mentally ill?
The outcome of this case may bring clarity to the property rights of Americans living in the shadow of police militarization.
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