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Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2022 was recently announced, and it's a term commonly used in psychology when describing psychological abuse. An appropriate "word of the year," some might agree ...

In this culture, we often think of manipulation as an attempt to take advantage of others by controlling or influencing them unfairly, deceitfully, or unscrupulously. For example, parents sometimes ...

2017-02-08T22:10:17-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/253/20170208221021002_hd.jpgI beg to differ, Jeff. Politics is a game of word manipulation. Words are the ...