Category Archives: News and Current Events

To help you understand the presidential elections in the United States this year, I’m going to attempt to explain some of the events of the election in an ongoing (continuing; series) “guide.” I am not an expert on politics, but … Continue reading →

This year’s election of the next president of the United States has been one of the strangest – perhaps “craziest” is a better word – in the past 100 years. Today is called Super Tuesday, a day when several state … Continue reading →

Humor (being funny or amusing) is sometimes difficult to define and to understand. What you may find funny, I may not and vice versa (the reverse is true). A group of Canadian researchers, however, may have an explanation for why … Continue reading →

Today is a public holiday in the United States called Veterans Day. A veteran is someone who was once in his or her country’s military (army, navy, etc.). Today is also a day of remembrance in many countries, since it … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of my little video experiment, Headline English, talks about how newspaper headlines often use phrases and words with more than one meaning as a way of grabbing (getting) your attention. -Jeff

If you read the news, you’ll often see one country compared to others using many different indices (measures; the singular is “index”). Many times, these indices have to do with political, economic, and social comparisons (looking for similarities and difference between … Continue reading →

Here’s another edition of Headline English, where I talk about some of vocabulary found in American newspapers. Today I talk about the hacking scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. Note: Slight correction – the actual number of accounts hacked was … Continue reading →

You may have heard of the Running of the Bulls (male cows) in Spain, especially the most famous in Pamplona, or seen it on television. This yearly event began many years ago to solve the problem of moving bulls from the corrals … Continue reading →

I’m trying a little video experiment today. I decided today that instead of writing my blog post, I’d just shoot a little video. I did this first thing this morning, as I was drinking my morning coffee (and before I … Continue reading →

Here’s a headline from a recent Wall Street Journal article: Private Equity’s Latest Fix: Auto-Body Repair A lot of newspaper headlines (titles of articles) are based on a “double meaning” of one of the words, where one word has two … Continue reading →