In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.

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Every day, thousands of new parents leave the hospital with a little one in their arms for the very first time.

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Anna Shechtman is an assistant professor of literatures in English at Cornell University and a crossword constructor at the New Yorker. Her first book, “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the ...

Chat doesn’t write well anyway. It sucks.” A third chimed in, “What’s the point of being an English major if you don’t want ...

Charles Taylor’s big-hearted, misshapen book on philosophy, poetry, and our never-ending quest to heal the wound of modern ...

— Nicanor Parra, “Poetry Ends with Me,” trans. Miller Williams ...

Ellison offer practical ways in which CTE teachers can help students new to English grapple with course reading demands ...

Votebeat examines the current translation practices for Navajo voters in Arizona, and where they fall short when providing ...