ANY fan of cops-crooks-and-courtrooms dramas knows that solitary confinement is a treat reserved for highly volatile criminals, or used to punish inmates for various misdeeds. In 2011, after ...

Without a common language to speak, St. Augustine wrote, “a man would be more cheerful with his dog for company than with a foreigner.” For eight years, Sunnat, a sixteen-year-old Uzbek captured in ...

New research from the University of Georgia finds that older Mexican Americans who live in low English-speaking neighborhoods are at greater risk for poor health and even an early death. Language ...

If you’ve ever wanted to develop a new accent, now is your time to shine, language experts say. Turns out, all it takes is “severe” and “long-lived” isolation for accents to develop or stick, which is ...