Scholars who study rhetoric and extremism say the country’s political language has grown more aggressive and can trigger ...

As political tensions surge and employee expression spills into every corner of the modern workplace, employers are finding themselves caught in the crossfire. From off-hours protests to heated ...

A public-school teacher wears a MAGA hat at a training session on cultural sensitivity (Dodge v. Evergreen School District #114, 56 F.4th 767 (9th Cir. 2022)), an actress in a mega-million-dollar film ...

The assassination in September 2025 of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has heightened attention on the relationship between political rhetoric and political violence. Even before police had ...

For the time being, it is important for employees to understand, that unless you are in a state that specifically protects political speech or activity, the employer has the autonomy and authority to ...

Even though Comey has insisted that he thought it was a silly picture of shells arranged in a clever way to express a political viewpoint, the Trump administration argues that Comey not only knew the ...

A SOFREP analysis draws parallels between the 2005 satire 'Idiocracy' and a decades-long decline in the complexity of U.S. presidential speech. Using Flesch-Kincaid readability scores, the report ...

The zealous safeguarding of individual expression is a recent innovation. What sparked it? The need to curb violent societal upheaval. As the United States veers toward renouncing its free speech ...

Discussion of "alternative facts" has gained sad notoriety in US politics. Yet the question has been around much longer: How do people conduct political debates—is the focus more on facts or personal ...

Current and former police leaders, citing rising threats of violence, are expressing alarm over a“disturbing rise in rhetoric” in the U.S. and calling for the criminal prosecution of “individuals, ...