Tag: Rhetoric
Look at 3 enduring stories Americans tell about guns to understand...
Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University and Brian L. Ott, Missouri State University
The United States has struggled with a...
‘I have a need’: How Zelensky’s plea to Congress emphasized shared...
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
Speaking from his nation’s capital of Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a...
Tracking anniversaries of Black deaths isn’t memorializing victims – it’s objectifying...
Lee M. Pierce, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
National Good Samaritan Day fell on March 13...
Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the...
Kenneth Ladenburg, Arizona State University
After the riots at the Capitol, images of Jacob Chansley, who’s been dubbed the “QAnon Shaman,” were splashed across news...
Voters are starting to act like hard-core sports fans – with...
Michael Devlin, Texas State University and Natalie Brown Devlin, University of Texas at Austin
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the American electorate became more divided and...
Rumors of Chris Pratt’s being a ‘MAGA Bro’ show how Twitter’s...
Aaron Duncan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
When actor Chris Pratt found himself trending on Twitter on Oct. 17, it wasn’t because of his new film or...
How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire
Tabitha Moses, Wayne State University
Sometimes war involves battling other countries; other times, it’s the metaphorical kind, like our current “war” against the coronavirus.
We see...
Why ‘I was just being sarcastic’ can be such a convenient...
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
After President Donald Trump said during his June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that increased testing was responsible for...
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What post-Weinstein Hollywood can learn from ’90s sexual harassment training
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
When accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment emerged, they reminded me of vignettes from harassment videos made by professional human...
