In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political ...

For a while now a number of ‘issues’ are in the limelight in Pakistan. Every single politician talks about them, every analyst discusses them and the whole population chimes about them literally every ...

Donald Trump has drawn criticism for stating that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” At a December rally in New Hampshire, he added that the threat is coming “not just from South ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

No one has yet blamed Jared Loughner’s teachers for his violent mind-set and actions in Arizona, but teachers and parents have long been aware that inflammatory rhetoric can spark agitation in ...

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Longtime scholar Dan Nimmo, whose research has contributed to the disciplines of political science, journalism, and communication, was one of the first to define and analyze the various audiences to ...

The issue of immigration highlighted some real differences between the candidates at last night's Republican debate in Milwaukee. The main question - what to do about undocumented immigrants already ...

What is the value of America's military and humanitarian interventions? Just look at Mali: Its shattered democracy and roving rebel groups are a troubling picture of an AFRICOM partner state. Six ...

I was not surprised to read the infantile analogies, denial of empirical facts, and relativist analyses presented by the intelligentsia clique whose anachronistic, amoral, and disingenuous opinions on ...