There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As we have entered the post-Trump era, marked by the forty-fifth president’s absence from the White House, from Twitter, and ...

In this lesson, students will explore how Abraham Lincoln used the power of words in speeches, letters and other documents. In the Introductory Activity, students will watch a segment from the PBS ...

Subscribe to the Facts & Arguments podcast on iTunes. Click here to download and listen to the podcast later (right-click and choose "save target as"). On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, ...

One of the most amusing aspects of learning foreign languages is the discovery of hard-to-translate words. These extraordinary words that succinctly pack in them entire universes of cultural nuance ...

On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, competitive university graduate with a journalism career in the big city against the retired nurse who spent her days puttering around her country ...