The assistant dean of students at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and blog readers share their reactions to the term... Readers had many thoughts on that artifact of the current ...

Political correctness and politically correct language have a bad reputation. On the other hand, they can also be seen as good. So what’s going on here? The phrase “politically correct” arose in the ...

It is one of those phrases we throw around reflexively, convinced that we share with our fellow citizens a collective notion of what it means. But every now and then a debate emerges on radio talk ...

The phrase has become inescapable—again. In campaign speeches, media headlines and your Twitter feed: “politically correct.” But what does it actually mean? Depends what year it is, and whom you’re ...