It’s hard to imagine Washington taking a more heavy-handed response to the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for having led a ...

Successful couples are not couples who never fight or are on everything at every moment. Often, couples who never fight have concealed issues or have made a decision, privately or not, that there is ...

Like simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole, irony is a very useful figure of speech. Writers and other creative workers regularly make use of it, including comedians. It can, however, also ...

One of the saddest threads running through Ireland's economic stagnation and abject poverty 80 years ago was the paradoxical self-esteem drawn from concealing it An unexamined truth of identity was ...

Commuting by bike can be a great way to exercise, but it can also be nerve-wracking depending on the space your city gives you. One driver on Reddit was mystified when a sign supposed to be helping ...

As Donald Trump searched for a running mate in May of 2016, his oldest child, Donald Trump Jr., tried to bring John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, into the fold. His supposed offer, according to ...

The Edo State House of Assembly, on February 18, 2025, passed a bill amending the Kidnapping Prohibition Amendment Law of 2013 and addressing related matters during its second reading. The bill ...

From William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “The Book of Mormon,” the power of irony transcends genres and ...

January 30, 2025 - A First Amendment challenge to a Minnesota anti-deepfake law presents the latest cautionary tale in the use of generative artificial intelligence in court submissions, particularly ...

“The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture. By Valeriya Safronova When the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

It is not without good reason that irony has been the most well-loved dramatic device in stories throughout history. It plays with our expectations of how things should be and surprises us by proving ...

In a since-deleted Tumblr post, artist Ethel Cain broadly proclaimed that “we are in an irony epidemic” — meaning there’s a “lack of sincerity in the world these days.” It’s not hard to find examples ...