Let me recall an example I gave when we earlier discussed figures of speech on May 21, 2019: “Dramatic irony is often realised in a play of film. It captures a situation the audience know something ...

J.B. Pritzker’s speech in New Hampshire last week was greeted ... or merely hyperbolic? Hyperbole, lies, and delusions are all forms of falsehoods, but of different magnitudes.

In the April 30 meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, which followed his 100th day in office, Attorney General Pam ...

Kennedy’s 1987 speech helped sink Bork's nomination and is considered by Republicans (and some Democrats) to have been unfair. Was it?

In public speaking, archetypes can evoke universal themes and tap into the collective unconscious of the audience.

Rhetoric like Bondi’s, Cangelosi said, is “always a form of hyperbole ... of lethal doses. For example, then Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a speech at the end of 2021, “In ...

Trump isn’t the first to overstate new investments on his watch. President Joe Biden said in 2024 that his bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act had attracted $640 billion in private investments; ...

During an appearance on Russia Today, Martin said then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “weaponized” Congress’ response to the Jan. 6 riots by ramping up security on Capitol Hill, comparing her to the Nazis ...

Closer scrutiny of the White House’s data shows the $5.1 trillion figure has caveats ... But the $5.1 trillion total has caveats. For example, the White House said "Japan announced a $1 trillion ...