The pictures have been coming out of Gaza for weeks--not the regular pictures of buildings falling in, smoke billowing to the sky, people fleeing gunfire. The new pictures are of small children, ...

'Authorization for the use of military force' just the latest example. Let's call it what it is. President Obama recently asked Congress to support his efforts to defeat the brutal Islamic State. What ...

MODERN American speech, while not always clear or correct or turned with much style, is supposed to be uncommonly frank. Witness the current explosion of four-letter words and the explicit discussion ...

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion ...

Every abortionist uses euphemisms to conceal the truth of what they support. The term abortion is a euphemism for murder. But before they can kill a baby, they have to dehumanize him or her. "It's not ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Dysphemism is a useful word.

Euphemism is alive and well again when it comes to axing jobs in America and elsewhere. For much of the past two years, the business world has been happy to trumpet the benefits of sending technology ...