Plain English knows a thing or two about time travel. A new palette with its origins in verdure tapestries faded in time. The wooded landscapes and country scenes often found in these paintings in ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission wants investment firms to speak our language. Previously, firms have said stuff like this: “In accordance with rule 12b-1, carbon-based life forms who have ...

Kitchens have to push against preconceived notions. They must perform as entertaining spaces and sites of culinary excellence. They sell homesand define “lifestyles”—but really, deep down, all we want ...

Labor Day weekend is now but a memory, which means that the beginning of October Term 2010 (whose name derives from its beginning, as dictated by statute, on the first Monday of October) is right ...

A CURRENT FLAP OVER THE SECURties and Exchange Commission's proposals to alter mutual-fund prospectuses a lot like the argument over modernizing the language of ancient religious texts. Critics fear ...

Last week the Court returned to begin its final set of oral arguments before the summer recess. And although much of the coverage of the Court continues to focus on how the Justices will rule on the ...

As we head into the final phase of the presidential election, it's essential to focus on the use of words and their meaning. It's not just in the competitive campaigns, however, but political rhetoric ...