Robin Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Language and Woman's Place "Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It ...

Like, have you ever noticed that women apologize too much? Sorry, but just humor me for a second here. What if, um, how we’re speaking is actually part of what’s ...

"Terrorism is a word that we as a society are currently struggling with." — -- As details emerge about Dallas gunman Micah Johnson's life before he went on a deadly rampage that left five police ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last night after the veep debate, my friends and I couldn’t stop doing the Sarah ...

Ready for a counter-narrative about President Obama's universally panned performance in the first debate? In her article, "Was Debate #1 a Pyrrhic Victory?" Robin Lakoff, professor of linguistics at ...

In the wake of a mass shooting that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, Calif., a familiar question has cropped up: "Is this an act of terrorism?" NPR's Carrie Johnson reports that law enforcement ...