I sat at a dinner table with a well-known politician recently. He said, “All men between the ages of 22 and 50 should be working.” I knew his intent: we, as Americans, should value a hard-working ...

Every two weeks, one of the world's estimated 7,000 languages becomes extinct. It is estimated that only about half of our current languages will still be spoken in the coming century. When UNESCO's ...

As American society has become more diverse and inclusive, there have been efforts to make language reflect that inclusivity. For decades, women, LGBTQIA people, disability advocates, and people of ...

In early reporting on the Iran War as “the ultimate war of choice,” the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. This is the lingua franca of the foreign policy ...

There isn’t just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, in different accents, ...

“Language Matters,” a new PBS documentary, explores how linguistic heritage and traditional cultures around the world are at risk of being lost forever. Jeffrey Brown talks to the show’s host, poet ...

Reporter David Nazar examines LAUSD's Dual Language Bilingual program. Reporter David Nazar examines LAUSD's Dual Language Bilingual program that's teaching kids English, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.