There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As we have entered the post-Trump era, marked by the forty-fifth president’s absence from the White House, from Twitter, and ...

Lincoln Brown wasn’t thrilled with his given name when he was small. “Stinkin’ Lincoln,” kids would call him. “I wanted to have a normal name like my brothers,” he said. (They’re named Christopher, ...

Subscribe to the Facts & Arguments podcast on iTunes. Click here to download and listen to the podcast later (right-click and choose "save target as"). On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, ...

On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, competitive university graduate with a journalism career in the big city against the retired nurse who spent her days puttering around her country ...