Newspeak:

• Jeb Lund, Republicans’ new climate strategy: just ban the words ‘climate change’
• Tristram Korten, In Florida, officials ban term ‘climate change’
• Evan Lehmann, Wisconsin Agency Bans Talk of Climate Change

Actually, it gets much worse than just banning (or attempting to ban) words.   They act to suppress inquiry in general and the collection of potentially inconvenient information in particular.  It was bad before the 2014 election.

• The Economist, Ignorance is Freedom
• Tim McDonnell, Taking Research for Granted
• Jeffrey Mervis, Battle between NSF and House science committee escalates: How did it get this bad?

and then it got worse

• Eli Rabett, Turn Out the Lights
• Eric Berger, Is there anyone in Congress that can restore NASA’s Earth science budget cut?
• John Timmer, House Science Committee guts NASA Earth sciences budget
• Elizabeth Kolbert, The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse
• Mike the Mad Biologist, Wyoming’s War on Microbiology

(Many of the links above are directly or indirectly via Mike the Mad Biologist.)

You wonder why I believe contemporary Republicans are essentially Stalinists?  Well there you have it.

PS  No, both sides don’t do it.  This is a Republican problem.