The late President Ronald Reagan was famous for many things, including his ability to deliver speeches with his weathered ...

Two: Blame Trump. He destroyed norms and mainstreamed vulgarity and violent rhetoric. And since he’s been the dominant ...

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley now holds the record for third longest Senate floor speech in modern history, after delivering ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley's overnight remarks ending early Wednesday evening put him in the top tier of lengthy floor speeches in the chamber's history.

The speeches that we studied of the great orators, from Greek times to the present, read like a work of art. A Monet or a ...

To mark the centenary of her birth, this Lincolnshire market town is making a fuss over its most famous daughter ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The assassination in September 2025 of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has heightened attention on the relationship between political rhetoric and political violence. Even before ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gregory P. Magarian, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) The ...