A little over a week before the hearing, constitutional scholar and Manhattan Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro gave a sharp account of where to draw the lines between rhetoric and “conduct,” on the one ...

The English language is famously tricky, featuring numerous words that sound alike but belong to completely different grammatical categories. Among the most frequent culprits leading to awkward ...

For the second time this year, a dictionary publisher has given its “Word of the Year” honor to something that is not a word. Merriam-Webster declared the suffix “-ism” as the word (except it’s ...

You might expect a website that fact-checks American politics to use the word “lie” a lot. But at PolitiFact, we don’t. We use the word lie once a year, when we consider a year’s worth of ...

“Legalistic.” That’s one of the kinder adjectives that commentators inside and outside academia have used to describe the disastrous congressional testimony on December 5 by the presidents of Harvard, ...