Political Language

GOP: Masters of Message

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Horowitz

When it comes to taking credit for tilting the pre-election playing field so smoothly in their direction, the GOP is the very picture of modesty.

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Verbal Abuse -- Torturing our Political Language

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Brenner

Turbulent political times can sharpen our awareness of ideas, issues and interests. America's current political mayhem has had the opposite effect. Language has become a victim of our debased public discourse.

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America's Most Prominent Emerging Poets Respond to the Obama Administration

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

Rachel Zucker and Arielle Greenberg asked one hundred of the best-known emerging American poets to respond with a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days. The resulting anthology is very revealing.

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Words That Worked in 2008 (and Some That Didn't): A Report Card

Michael Maslansky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Maslansky

The following is our admittedly subjective ranking of the top ten words of 2008 and how well people used them.

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Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 05.25.2011

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BlackAndBrownNews

There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.

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