In this perplexing, 24-hour-news-cycle-reality-show world in which I find myself, I tend to react to current events as if they were background noise that only occasionally comes to the surface of my ...

Putting aside politics for a second (as far as that’s possible when discussing the POTUS), Donald Trump’s recent assertion that a “double negative” is the same as a “positive” isn’t entirely incorrect ...

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is ready to help Americans understand the “double negative” Donald Trump used to explain the comments he made this week, in which he appeared to side with Russia ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Low began in 1993 as an ...

In 1984, the eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote a clever essay in defense of double negatives. I won’t explain why your high school English teacher told you not to use them (although I just ...

There is an old joke:<BR><BR>A linguistics professor told his class "in English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.