Estimates are that between 60% and 75% of Americans in prison have been labeled “functionally illiterate.” ...

The most simple definition of literacy is the ability to read and write. According to the World Literacy Foundation (WLF), nearly one in every five people are completely illiterate. WLF also estimates ...

The PCtvt concept being developed at Carnegie Mellon University is aiming to deliver a combined PC, TV, Video and Telephone at a cost of under US$250 by 2007. The radically simple design for ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of live music has been in flux, shuttering venues nationwide and bringing touring to a halt. As the music industry continues to navigate the nuances ...

The 1965 Voting Rights Act has banished the discriminatory literacy requirements that disenfranchised Southern Negroes for almost 100 years. But one of the fruits of becoming a registered voter is ...

When the Hungarian author Ágota Kristóf was a child, she grew bored of the tales that her grandmother would tell her and her two brothers over and over again at bedtime. One evening, little Ágota ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Ágota Kristóf’s The Notebook trilogy, which begins with The Notebook ...

Reporting from Bamako, Mali — Mamadou Gouro Sidibe spent years developing social networking apps that he hoped would rival giants such as Facebook or WhatsApp in his native Mali. Each time, he was a ...