'a provocative article' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a piece of writing that is designed to challenge or provoke people's beliefs, opinions, or emotions. For example, you could say, "I read an interesting article about gun control - it was quite a provocative article."
In 1988, he published a provocative article in Science.
In a provocative article on CNN's Web site, the committee's chairman, Reince Priebus, said, "Democrats know they benefit from election fraud".
In 2004, the Times Literary Supplement published a provocative article by Gordon Bowker, Lowry's most capable biographer, which revived some longunanswered questions about Lowry's final days in Ripe.
In Campaigns & Elections, a trade publication, Schaeffer published a provocative article suggesting that Cuccinelli's position on abortion might have been a strength, not a weakness.
In 1980, the film critic J. Hoberman wrote a provocative article, "Bad Movies," which singled out the egregious Edward Wood and Micheaux for left-handed praise.
It was a provocative article; in an interview, Professor Kennedy said the suggestion that a justice should retire for purely political reasons was "viewed as somewhat unseemly" by many of his colleagues.
"It's a marvelously provocative article," says Inez Fung, a global change scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Ann Coulter, a syndicated-columnist, published a rather provocative article where she addresses nine points on how soccer and the culture around it are proof of a country's decaying moral standards.
This week, professional anger-tainment star, Ann Coulter, wrote a predictably provocative article for TownHall in which she calls for the repeal of the 26th Amendment, the Vietnam era Amendment which lowered the voting age to 18 in the United States.
Instead, Northwestern put Kipnis through months of "investigation" for doing nothing more than writing an interesting and provocative article in a journal of considerable repute.
A striking and provocative article in New York Magazine discusses having a child at a later age.
