Syria

George Lakoff analyzes the language in public discourse on Syria from the perspective of cognitive science and linguistics.

In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, based on numbers from the internal revenue service, the top ten …

Part two of writer Chris Hedges and scholar Rania Masri response to President Obama's Syria address.

Once again, we find ourselves at the day after 9/11, and this time America stands alone.

All agree that chemical weapons were used (even Assad agrees); the Administration says that we have overwhelming evidence that Assad's forces deployed these chemicals (Assad denies).

The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …

There is no doubt that the use of chemical arms is immoral and to be condemned, but your government has no moral authority whatsoever to justify an intervention.

War is organized insanity. And, frankly, it's often not even that organized.

We get reaction to Obama's speech from world-renowned political dissident and linguist, MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky.

Scholar Rania Masri and writer Chris Hedges respond to President Obama's major Syria address.