War's vocabulary, designed to control perception and justify violence, profoundly impacts societies. Israel's 'mowing the ...

Trump's war on words and the failures of a "weaponized" defense The story of "weaponize" is a cautionary tale, a tale of how an assault on nuance and meaning is contagious.

This word war had to be waged carefully and cannily, lest the U.S. seem too eager and thus persuade the Japs that they could get better terms by holding out longer.

Newt Gingrich, while Speaker of the House in the 1990s, encouraged his footsoldiers to repeat focus-group-tested words like “sick”, “pathetic” and “coercion” when talking about ...

Words matter. It’s an important lesson learned by children in the play yard and PR firm executives alike. That is why the recent unheralded word changeto the U.S. Department of Defense’s ...

The word jihad is pervasive in American culture, but the word has changed meaning over the centuries. Some Islamic scholars think the word "jihad" should be abandoned and replaced with a more ...

War is a writer’s medium. Even in the age of instant imaging, the lasting expressions of war are those expressed by soldiers who have lived the experience. One of them is Bill Glose, poet-editor ...

Word for War; Word for War. 5 minute read. TIME. April 27, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4. P resident Roosevelt, who wanted a new and better name for the war, could take his pick of suggestions.

The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, most of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 million since 2016. Spoken word has gained new prominence in Cameroon with poets such as Alemnge ...