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 ...

The word “lesson” gets a bad rep. We associate it with a formal classroom setting, automatically giving many PTSD of homework and school. That goes doubly for the Hebrew equivalent of the word “lesson ...

There’s a story, a parable, on giving over lessons by the Maggid of Dubno that I really enjoy, so I’ll just repeat it here: There was once a man walking through a forest and as he walked, he noticed ...

Weird Al Yankovic’s brand of musical parody changed comedy, raising the bar for the level of accuracy expected in parody. And after 14 albums, he’s still at it. As Yankovic puts it, his most recent ...

“The media reporting that Trump spread ‘baseless insinuations,’ ‘inaccurate claims,’ or ‘falsehoods’ felt deeply dissatisfying. The word that signals both untruthfulness and reproof of it is “lie”—and ...