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political language

George Orwell on “Politics and the English Language”

Nadya Williams   |  September 26, 2024

Why warped political language matters.

What if I don’t want to punch left or right?

Nadya Williams   |  August 6, 2024

On resisting the discourse of outrage.

Michelle Cottle offers a “dictionary for these polarized times”

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

The premise of Cottle’s piece at The New York Times is that Democrats and Republicans no longer speak the same language. Take, for example, the phrase “fake news”: Pre-Trump, most folks thought of fake news as media sources that trafficked […]