The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion ...

If you watched the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Games, you may have noticed a conspicuous omission during the parade of nations. Because of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine almost exactly ...

Some of us can remember when progressives started brow-beating anybody who used the term "illegal alien" to describe, well, illegal aliens. Often enough, some breeze blows an idea across the American ...

George ORWELL’s essay “Politics and the English Language”, published in 1946, took aim at the bureaucrats, academics and hacks who obfuscated their misdeeds in vague, jargon-packed writing.

Historically, euphemism has been correlated to fear or superstition. For example, often times we hear death referred to as passing away; while death is inevitable, avoiding direct reference to it both ...

In last week's homily it was noted that "one of the more appalling euphemisms of recent vintage" is "hospitality industry" -- i.e., all those people who bring you hotel rooms and restaurant tables and ...