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- Michael Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti. 2025. A Trump executive order sets out what could be a road map for retribution. Jan 25, New York Times.
- Elizabeth Williamson. 2025. What Elon Musk didn’t budget for: Firing workers costs money, too. April 24, New York Times. (pdf)
- Jonathan Landay, Sarah N. Lynch and Phil Stewart. 2025. Exclusive: Wide-ranging group of officials pursues Trump’s fight against ‘deep state.’ October 21, Reuters.com.
- Will Weissert. 2025. Trump has canceled Biden’s ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of ‘drain the swamp.‘ January 22, Associated Press.
- Karen Yourish, Annie Daniel, Saurabh Datar, Isaac White and
Lazaro Gamio2025. These words are disappearing in the new Trump Administration. March 7, New York Times. (pdf) - Lena H. Sun, Dan Diamond and Lauren Weber. 2025. White House fires CDC Director who says RFK Jr is ‘weaponizing public health.’ August 27, Washington Post.
- Alan Feuer. 2025. Videos show pardoned Capitol rioters attacking police. February, New York Times.
- Isaac Stanley-Becker and Josh Dawsey. 2024. Eight years ago, Trump vowed to ‘drain the swamp.’ Now he swims in it. October 11, Washington Post. (pdf)
- Quil Lawrence and Tom Bowman. 2025. White House welcomes Afrikaners to the U.S., but drops protections for Afghan allies. May 13, npr.org.
- New York Times. 2025. White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump. May 13, New York Times. (pdf)
- Ryan J. Reilly. 2025. DOJ ‘weaponization’ group will shame individuals it can’t charge with crimes, new head says. May 13, nbcnews.com. (pdf)
- Nate Raymond. 2025. Trump admin allows devices that let some weapons shoot as fast as machine guns. March 18, USA Today.
- Melinda Delkic. 2022. Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language. Nov 19, New York Times.
- Ron Charles. 2021. Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian. January 11, Washington Post. (pdf)
- New York Times Editorial Board. 2018. The war on truth spreads. Dec 9, New York Times.
- Christopher Flavelle. 2020. Conservative states seek billions to brace for disaster (Just don’t call it climate change). Jan 20, NY Times.
- Jon Swaine. 2017. Donald Trump’s team defends ‘alternative facts’ after widespread protests. Jan 23, The Guardian.
- George Packer. 2019. Doublethink is stronger than Orwell imagined. July, The Atlantic.
- Louis Menand. 2018. Words of the year: What language can possibly be used to capture the upside-down world of 2017? Jan 8, New Yorker Magazine.
- Margaret Atwood. 2015. We are double-plus unfree. Sept 20, The Guardian.
- Los Angeles Times Editorial Board. 2017. Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn’t make it go away. Dec 19, Los Angeles Times.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2015. The Orwellian re-branding of ‘mass surveillance’ as merely ‘bulk collection.‘ Mar 15, The Intercept.
- Valerie Abrahamsen. 2017. Doublespeak and American ‘greatness.’ May 4, wisdomwordsppf.org.
- Tim Wu. 2019. The oppression of the supermajority. March 5, New York Times.
- Jason Stanley. 2018. Bannon’s deviant ‘badge of honor.’ Mar 13, New York Times.
- George Orwell. 1946. Politics and the English language. London: Horizon.
- Jean Seaton, Tim Cook and DJ Taylor. 2017. Welcome to dystopia–George Orwell experts on Donald Trump. Jan 25, The Guardian.
- Los Angeles Times. 2017. Talking about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn’t make it go away. Dec 19, latimes.com.
- Stefan Kyriazis. 2017. George Orwell’s 1984 explains Trump: Doublespeak, alternative facts and reality control. Jan 27, Express.
- David Barstow. 2017. ‘Up is down‘: Trump’s unreality show echoes his business past. Jan 27, New York Times.
- Chi Luu. 2016. The linguistics of mass persuasion part 2: Choose your own adventure. Feb 24, JStorDaily.
- Mark Peysha. 2016. How Donald Trump’s doublespeak really works–and is highly calculated. June 7, Alternet.
- Patrick Cockburn. 2014. The secret report that helps Israel hide facts. July 27, The Independent.
- Maira Sutton. 2015. The White House has gone full doublespeak on fast track and the TPP. Mar 6, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Rania Khalek. 2014. Calling rape by its right name. Feb 1, Extra!
- Rachel Aviv. 2014. A valuable reputation. Feb 10, New Yorker Magazine.
- Peter van Buren. 2012. Obama’s war on whistleblowers. June 12, Mother Jones.
- Yves Smith. 2010. Administration bank tax plan: An empty populist gesture by design? Jan 12, Naked Capitalism.
- Tom Englehardt. 2005. Entries for a devil’s dictionary of the Bush era. Mar 28, TomDispatch.com.
- Tom Englehardt. 2005. Are we in World War IV? Mar 10, TomDispatch.com.
- Tom McNally. 2008. How anti-intellectualism is destroying America. Aug 15, Alternet.
- Katrina Vanden Huevel. 2005. Dictionary of republicanisms. The Nation, Dec 12.
- Frank Luntz. 2005. 14 words never to use. Excerpted from ‘Learning from 2004; winning in 2006.’ Luntz Research Companies.
- Chris Mooney. 2004. Beware ‘sound science:’ It’s doublespeak for trouble. Feb 29, Washington Post.
- Barbara Ehrenreich. 2004. Feminism’s assumptions upended. May 16, Los Angeles Times.
- Arundhati Roy. 2001. New world disorder. In These Times, Oct 26.
- Sourcewatch. Doublespeak.
- James Fallows. 2004. Annotated version of President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union Address. TheAtlantic.com, Jan 23.
- Daniel Okrent. 2005. War of words: Dispatch from the front lines. New York Times Magazine.
- William Lutz. 2004. Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer. Online at www.dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. 2003. Bush Administration’s Orwellian Logic: Anti-Gay Discrimination is “Civil Rights and Religious Liberty”. Commondreams.org.
- National Council of Teachers of English. 2003. Doublespeak awards, 1975-2003.
- Susan Sontag. 2002. Real battles and empty metaphors. New York Times, September 10.
- Students for an Orwellian Society. Online at http://studentsfororwell.org/
- Unquietmind.com. 1998. 17Aug98: What Clinton Said / What Clinton Meant.
- Richard Garner. 2008. British teachers told to rewrite history of the Iraq War. The Independent, Mar 14.
- Ruth Rosen. 2003. Bush doublespeak. Commondreams.org. Mar 7, Common Dreams.
- Jacob Levich. 2001. Happy New Year: It’s 1984. commondreams.org, September 22.
- Robert Burns. 2003. Rumsfeld: Iraqis Free to Form Own Gov’t as Long as It is Not an Iranian-Style Theocracy. Associated Press, April 24. Online at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-11.htm
- Damronplanet. 2003. Doublespeak. Online at http://www.damronplanet.com/doublespeak/
- Wayne Grytting. 2003. The Orwell Awards. American newspeak.
- Bill Grigsby. 2004. What would Orwell say? April 15, Scoop.
- Bill Grigsby. 2006. How Stephen Colbert got picked, truthy, and panned. May 17, The Scoop.
- Richard Moore. 1996. Doublespeak and the new world order. New Dawn Magazine (Mar-Apr).
