A day after a firestorm over GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush's use of the word "anchor baby", his son George P. Bush told a major Spanish-language news organization his father will "pivot" from ...

We’re surrounded with loaded language. Whether it’s mass media, politics, or the people around us, someone is always trying to use words and phrases to support their agenda and to change our minds in ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities ...

It’s the biggest, fiercest debate taking place across America. But it’s poisoned from the get-go by a Tower of Babel predicament. In disputes over the future of gun laws, people espousing different ...

There can be more to a question than appears at first sight. William Burroughs, the infamous US writer and author of Naked Lunch, had a typically counter-culture approach to seeking knowledge: “Your ...

Sometimes it’s the offhand remark that’s the most telling. Indeed, the way we Americans casually, often unthinkingly, incorporate gun metaphors into our everyday slang says a lot about how deeply ...

I respect the Tribune’s right to put editorials in the paper, but I prefer that they be specifically labeled as such, and not disguised as news reporting. Jan Crawford Greenburg’s front page story on ...

Update from Edgar B. Herwick III, October 5, 2017: Like many of us, I’ve been closely following developments in Las Vegas, following the tragic violence that unfolded there Sunday night. Today, a ...