After several years of troop drawdowns, the country is back to waging rather than ending war. Democrats, too, have rallied around the metaphor of war. As Susan E. Rice, Barack Obama’s national ...

Tim Burke’s piece this week about his thoughts on a possible return to campus in the fall is well worth reading. Burke works at Swarthmore, a wealthy and elite residential liberal arts college near ...

“We’re going to run them out of business and buy that building, which we’re going to bulldoze. After that, we’ll salt the earth. Then we’ll go after their families,” Larry Ellison, executive chairman ...

When Republican officials aren't relying on denial when explaining away the "war on women," they rely on an old standby: questioning their opponents' patriotism. "I find it offensive that the ...

From a quantitative point of view, the study also found that these metaphors are used more often by the people suffering from a mental health disorder themselves than by mental health professionals.

Try talking about cancer without using a war metaphor. It's likely you'll stumble. We rarely say someone is living with cancer. People "fight" cancer or "battle" it. They demonstrate they are ...

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Bertus van Rooy received research funding under the Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers scheme from the National Research Foundation from 2008-2018. Ansie Maritz does not work for, consult, own ...