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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sacha Jenkins’ Word Is Bond celebrates the art of lyricism in hip-hop at a time when the genre’s mainstream is mostly focused elsewhere: on bunker-busting beats, on beguiling melodies, on Spotify ...

Lincoln Brown wasn’t thrilled with his given name when he was small. “Stinkin’ Lincoln,” kids would call him. “I wanted to have a normal name like my brothers,” he said. (They’re named Christopher, ...

HILTON, N.Y. (WHEC) — Some parents are raising concern over a Hilton High School lesson plan about reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird. What most concerned the parent who contacted us were the ...

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 ...