In the rush to explain Saturday’s tragic shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in the media have rushed to link the bloodbath to what they see as the recent upsurge in harsh political ...

Donald Trump has drawn criticism for stating that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” At a December rally in New Hampshire, he added that the threat is coming “not just from South ...

For a while now a number of ‘issues’ are in the limelight in Pakistan. Every single politician talks about them, every analyst discusses them and the whole population chimes about them literally every ...

No one has yet blamed Jared Loughner’s teachers for his violent mind-set and actions in Arizona, but teachers and parents have long been aware that inflammatory rhetoric can spark agitation in ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

Longtime scholar Dan Nimmo, whose research has contributed to the disciplines of political science, journalism, and communication, was one of the first to define and analyze the various audiences to ...

What is the value of America's military and humanitarian interventions? Just look at Mali: Its shattered democracy and roving rebel groups are a troubling picture of an AFRICOM partner state. Six ...

Take a look at the top secret report prepared for the president. America's strategic interests, the National Security Council document says, demand that the administration use all its political muscle ...