ON 1 MARCH 2025, president Donald Trump made English the official language of the United States by an executive order. This ...

About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language.

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language until now. But Americans will not ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came here from Czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his ...

Immigrants don’t need an executive order to want to learn English. The incentives to learn the language are already ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States on March 1 ...

Today, about 1.5 billion people speak English. Only about 400 million of those speak it as their first language. It is the ...

Readers disagree. One says it will finally encourage people coming from other countries to learn English, while another says ...

President Donald Trump has a knack for dividing Americans by race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual identity and national origin. Now we can add one more item to that list: language.

President Donald Trump is a shameless cultural warrior who pits citizens against one another. Perhaps he does it for his own ...

NFL Draft class is once again going to be feature a cluster of wide receivers selected in the first couple rounds. Maybe not ...

The director Catherine Gund fuses work from multiple artists with archival footage and interviews to craft an exploration of Black resilience. By Alissa Wilkinson In this coming-of-age drama from ...