Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages, researchers report. The work could enable computers chewing through relatively accessible documents ...

Despite the rank hypocrisy of Orwell’s use of the passive voice, this is one of the most sublimely constructed essays ever published in the English language. I wish The New Republic could claim full ...

For international students whose primary language is not English, writing a college essay can be challenging. But English competence is not everything when it comes to writing well. Even native ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Can there be a political writer who has not fallen in love with George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and ...

Nearly 60 students from around the world gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 29 July to present their action plans for building a sustainable future through the 2030 Agenda ...

Mr. Pinsky, the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, is a professor at Boston University. A writer I admire expresses in a few words his disdain for plausible but empty political language, beginning ...

Computer scientists at MIT and Israel's Technion have discovered an unexpected source of information about the world's languages: the habits of native speakers of those languages when writing in ...