Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The security chief of the Chicago Department of Aviation at O’Hare International Airport was fired weeks after the United Airlines ...

General Motors on Monday came up with a new way to describe being fired: You're unallocated. The automaker announced it would cease production at five plants in the U.S. and Canada and sack up to ...

'Authorization for the use of military force' just the latest example. Let's call it what it is. President Obama recently asked Congress to support his efforts to defeat the brutal Islamic State. What ...

MODERN American speech, while not always clear or correct or turned with much style, is supposed to be uncommonly frank. Witness the current explosion of four-letter words and the explicit discussion ...

Putting a good spin on things, verbally, can be a habit, a necessary business skill, or a vocation unto itself. Take a look at euphemism, who it hurts and who it benefits, and how different cultures, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O’Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Dysphemism is a useful word.

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion ...

“Where is the euphemism?” A college friend used to ask this question to point out the silliness of calling a toilet a bathroom. Euphemism in ordinary speech may be amusing, stilted, or polite, but in ...