Does Elmira sometimes lie about misusing words? If she does, she should get up, quit lying about her not lying in bed until ...

Punctuation may be small, its rules arbitrary, but it is mighty. A single comma, em dash or semicolon can totally alter the ...

Cultural memes on social media are documenting widespread fear over an economic downturn. But are they accurate?

The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

According to Muhammed, when Abdullah, who doesn’t speak English, woke up to officers in plain clothes, his self-defense ...

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After the war, philanthropist Jacques Levi Lassen — who had survived in the United States — returned to a city where the ...

When a phrase has been misused into uselessness, maybe avoiding it is the best policy.

Buddy Nealson was the Negro who had formulated the Communist position for the American Negro; he had made speeches in the Kremlin; he had spoken before Stalin himself. “Why does Nealson call me that?” ...

The case tests whether public money can be used to fund a religious charter school in Oklahoma, and its outcome could affect ...