This was another fabulous year for “newspeak,” a language primarily spoken within TV newscasts, political debate and by government officials. It’s a language that, if we spoke it, we’d clear the room ...

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The presidential election is eight months away. Yet the campaign to preclude a second Trump administration is already in high gear. In the course of two weeks, the public was given a preview of the ...

In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created a term “Newspeak,” a language that was imposed by Big Brother for the purpose of diminishing the range of thought. That perfectly describes what recently ...

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." This passage from George Orwell's 1984 is one that every Chicago Bears fan should consider while digesting the latest propaganda being dispensed by ...

- The writer is political scientist and author of Islamo-psychose [Islamo-psychosis], Fayard Publishing, 2017. In the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen reached a new high by garnering ...

Did President Obama lie to the American people when he said that those who liked their current health insurance policies could keep them? Or was he simply out of the loop when it came down to the ...

Some of my favorite books are dystopian novels — stories of future worlds that see themselves as utopian, but are in fact nightmarish perversions of society. Dystopias are often characterized by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Alex J. Pollock. Sir, As you report in “Investors bet Fed action will bring rise in inflation” (October ...