Propaganda loves grammar that deletes responsible actors: passives (“mistakes were made”), nominalizations (“the implementation of policy”), and abstract forces (“market failures,” “systemic pressures ...

Current studies have foregrounded the contribution of discourse analysis to the study of the internet as a preferred interaction medium where social, psychological, cultural, and professional ...

Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows, R - Lubbock, and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, R - Senate, created select committees to study the temperature and situation on campus following the assassination of ...

A social media post made by Stephen King about Charlie Kirk's shooting has sparked a backlash. Bestselling author King triggered outrage after he called the death of Kirk, 31, who was fatally shot at ...

President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

For decades, efforts to halt deforestation in the Global South have gained much attention within the policy arena, most recently as a powerful and effective measure to mitigate climate change and ...

I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...

ABSTRACT: This paper critically investigated the origins and cultural roots of the Ibalong, a renowned Bikolano epic, questioning its classification as an indigenous narrative or a product of Spanish ...

For more than two years, the immigration debate has revolved around one issue: “the border.” Despite the fact that issues related to the border are vast and complex, the entire U.S. immigration system ...

Surprise occurs in many forms. Many think of it in terms of a surprise attack, but it occurs in other dimensions. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is a good example: the attack was ...