Reporters love to quote newsmakers using analogies. These figures of speech can be quite useful in taking complicated or abstract concepts and making them more understandable in tangible, visual ways.

The Holocaust was suddenly in the center of U.S. political discourse early this week. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) referred on social media to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ...

This column was written by Michael Schaffer. There's a challenge in writing about the overuse of analogy in contemporary political journalism: There's no perfect analogy for the device. Are analogies ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 26: The Duke Blue Devils players dump confetti onto head coach Mike Krzyzewski after defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks 78-69 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament ...

(Link) This work reviews the literature on analogy, introduces a new model of analogy, and presents a series of experiments that test and confirm the utility of this model to describe and predict ...