In his speech to both chambers of Congress tonight, President Donald Trump rattled off a list of specious grants allegedly uncovered by his newfound Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). "Twenty ...

Burt looks at how Freedom of Speech became central to the US creed. 1 Freedom of Speech is central to Burt’s work, which is why he put together two programs dealing with the subject. In this first ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

The biggest surprise on the last night of the Democratic convention wasn’t that Beyoncé or Taylor Swift didn’t show up (contrary to widespread rumor). It was that so much time was devoted to touting ...