It's that time again — graduation season. And that means next week or last week or right this very minute, some 7 million students in the U.S. and lots of doting parents have to sit through a ...

Lissa Muscatine, a former White House speechwriter who led the drafting of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1995 speech to the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women, will talk about that speech at ...

What happens to Oscar winners when they get on stage? They tend to forget their acting skills and babble on about people we’ve never heard of. Who are those folks, anyway fter picking up her Best ...

During President Barack Obama's second term, when extremist groups were active on social media and college campuses, I faced a situation that was a lesson on the intricacies of free speech. Campus ...

McCain is the underdog candidate, and his combative 22-minute stump speech reflects his position in the race. "We're a few points down. The national media has written us off," he says. "Just the other ...

Hillary Clinton has gone from first lady to Senate candidate and on to presidential candidate. Along the way, she has changed emphasis many times — most recently adopting the role of populist champion ...

There are various kinds of political speeches. There is the call to arms to enthuse and inspire one’s audience. There is the speech to sway the audience, to persuade listeners, maybe even to change ...