In the 12 days between his second inaugural speech, replete with religious references, and his State of the Union address, delivered in more secular tones, President George W. Bush enjoyed what ...

For the overlapping set of people who both watch the State of the Union and care about linguistic analysis—still with us?—tallying up words from each year’s address is its own kind of Washington ...

George W. Bush began to take part in a Bible study group in 1985, after two decades of binge drinking. For two years he studied the Scriptures and put his heavy drinking behind him. By signing up, you ...

Reading and listening to coverage of the death of George Bush, my thoughts turned, naturally, to his use of language. Most notably, for a one-term president, he was responsible for (I would say) far ...

President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an “unintended consequence.” During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to ...

Foreign-language experts are praising the Department of Education for taking a larger role in promoting the teaching of other languages as part of a proposed Bush administration initiative to bolster ...

So President Bush is human. So what? So President Bush speaks in the vernacular. So what? At least now the world can realize that he is fed up with the stupidity, insanity and hopelessness of the ...