Rhetoric

Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

Copenhagen Goals Scaled Back: World Leaders Put Off Climate Change Treaty

TIME | Bryan Walsh Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green


Confirming doubts that had been growing for months, the world leaders in attendance at APEC -- along with Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen -...

Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

'Life' and 'Death'

Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics


Robin Lakoff

Republicans have gotten the trademark on the two most potent words at our disposal. They are the ones who decide what those words mean: who can use them, about what, in what context.

Obama's Rhetorical Inspirations: Presidents, Poets, and Hobbits

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics


Aaron Zelinsky

Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.

Hey World, What Do You Think of US Now?

Nancy Snow | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Nancy Snow

We may be seeing the beginnings of presidential leadership that co-inspires mutual trust instead of conspiring to undermine public will.