“Accent by itself is a shallow measure of language proficiency, the linguistic equivalent of judging people by their looks.

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, publicly encouraged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News this week, despite his anti-vaccine ...

If you plug your ears, the voices around you become muffled—while yours becomes annoyingly amplified. “It’s like talking with your head in a barrel. Your own voice sounds booming,” says Kévin Carillo, ...