ENGLISH MOJO – Words and Power

The man who gave the world “the axis of evil” left the White House, presumably never to return. Though his words captured people’s attention around the world, chief speech writer, Michael Gerson’s identity was relatively unknown. More here . . .

Words are a big part of the American experiment in democracy. To commemorate this we’ve assembled a collection of explanations about one year’s election into the following “Ode to This Election”. More here . . .

Before you give your next apology, consider some recent results of saying sorry.

After apologizing for his prime minister, an Australian was suddenly forced off-line. In Las Vegas a man who apologized was arrested and extradited. More here . . .

Even as the US president said, “Victory will not look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. There will be no surrender ceremony on the deck of a battleship,” a winner was already rising out of the skirmishes.

The combatants were three words. More here . . .

New White House speechwriters-in-chief always change the speech of the US president. They cleverly modify his highest profile messages through the words they allocate to him and how often he repeats them.

The State of the Union address reveals text patterns introduced by new speechwriting staff. More here . . .

History sometimes turns on the drama of a single word.

The word in this case is “recall”. When it’s served up 70 times by a person in one meeting, the mystery is why.

A battle of lawyers was taking place in the Senate Office Building. More here . . .