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 ...

The partisan rhetoric of the post-Civil War period was unique to its historical moment, yet not unique as a political tactic. Instead, while the terminology has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The violence at an Arizona shopping center in Tucson Saturday is a reminder to Americans that public figures with easy access to large microphones have a responsibility to cool the rhetoric.