English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3

The authors demonstrate the importance of understanding kinds of humor that differ across cultures and offer clear suggestions for teaching three kinds—verbal irony, memes, and satirical news—with examples that can help students develop humor competency and enhance their twenty-first-century skills, including digital and media literacy. Authors: John Rucynski, Jr. andContinue Reading

You can’t turn a virtual page these days without finding a new article or column or editorial forecasting or demanding a “reckoning” for Democrats after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the presidency. In some respects that’s as it should be. It was a critical election and Democrats came upContinue Reading

Editorial: Americans voted for Trump. Here’s what they chose — and the hope for all those who didn’t

Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by puttingContinue Reading

The west must give Zelenskyy free rein now North Korea has joined the war | Observer editorial

The transfer to Russia of an estimated 10,000 North Korean troops to bolster Vladimir Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine represents an alarming escalation of a conflict that is causing ever-greater international insecurity and instability. The provocative deployment by the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, links the confrontation on Europe’s borderContinue Reading

Washington Post reports 250,000 subscribers canceled after Bezos endorsement block

The Washington Post has seen at least 250,000 readers cancel their subscriptions after owner Jeff Bezos ended a decades-long tradition of endorsing presidential candidates, the newspaper reported late Tuesday.Why it matters: That figure represents 10% of 2.5 million subscribers the paper had before Bezos announced the decision after the WaPoContinue Reading