Each week,this program explains the many meanings of English expressions.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Judge Melvin Wright explains how the D.C.Superior Court handles this issue: "We instruct jurors that they cannot during the course of a trial use Google or Twitter or any other electronic device to obtain information.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

VOA: special.2011.06.06

As political analyst Jacek Kucharczyk explains, this new approach represents a dramatic shift.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Grzegorz Makowski of the Warsaw-based Institute of Public Affairs explains this surge of support for Kaczynski, saying he thinks the plane crash at Smolensk mobilized more conservative voters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03