One of the major causes of ongoing intransigent conflict in the Holy Land is the odd alliance of fundamentalist American Christians and ultra-Zionist nationalist Israelis.

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But as George Orwell notes in his prescient 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “…if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” That observation is ...

Twenty-five years ago, Pat Morrison campaigned successfully to make her street 'no entry' at the junction with the busy main road, to stop it being used as a rat run. Did you know with a Digital ...

The owners of The Palm Beach Post fired Editorial Page Editor Tony Doris last month after the paper published a syndicated cartoon condemned as antisemitic. Executives with Gannett, the nation’s ...

A past master at double-speak during its formative years, the BJP has announced that the BJP-led NDA would contest the upcoming Bihar elections under Nitish Kumar’s leadership. This was in respo ...

To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too. I'm Feifei, and ...

Dear Abby gives advice to a woman whose son and daughter-in-law are upset at her because she gave them COVID-19 on a trip. Prostock-studio - stock.adobe.com DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend, whom I have ...