So, is Whitmer fixing the roads? As Bill Clinton might say, it depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.

Republicans increasingly use what linguist Amanda Montell calls thought-terminating cliches in their arguments. These are simple statements that are distortions, over generalizations, leave out ...

Even before official campaigns kick off, social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and ...

Speaking in political slogans makes honest communication difficult, if not impossible. There is no quick fix to the problems our society is facing, because they are not just about semantics.

But when Miller asked Mamdani about the pro-Palestine slogan “Globalize the intifada,” the candidate’s pragmatism and intellectual humility evaporated. “To me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a ...