In Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words, Anne Curzan tackles a pile of hard questions about grammar and usage. Her tone, however, is upbeat. A linguist, a language historian, and a writing professor, Curzan is the anti-vigilante of usage critics. For years, she has been writing and talking
Singapore’s success is the key to its security—and ours Joe Biden and then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore in 2022 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) SINGAPORE—City states have largely disappeared from world politics. Over the centuries, technological and economic advances made great powers rich and strong enough to impose their will far away from their home
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) said Thursday that she now opposes an electric vehicle battery plant project tied to the Chinese Communist Party after avoiding taking a position on it for years and signing a hush agreement to participate in negotiations about it. “To me, until there’s a national security vetting,
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said that ABC’s decision to keep the microphones muted during the upcoming presidential debate “handcuffed” its initial strategy, Politico reported Friday. Harris’s plan, before ABC finalized the rules of the event this week, was to interrupt her opponent, former president Donald Trump, by fact-checking and directly questioning him while he was
The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on Tucker Carlson’s show that Winston Churchill “was the chief villain of World War II,” which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely. Cooper’s first
Casey oversaw state pension funds’ business with Bridgewater Associates L: Dave McCormick R: Pa. Sen. Bob Casey (Jeff Swensen; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Democratic senator Bob Casey has criticized Republican challenger Dave McCormick over his past role at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. But Casey spoke highly of the investment firm’s offerings when he served as
NEW YORK (Reuters)—A New York judge on Friday delayed former president Donald Trump‘s sentencing on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star until Nov. 26. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had asked Justice Juan Merchan to push back his sentencing date until after the Nov. 5 election. Trump had previously been