About half the states have passed laws that make English the official language of their state. Why is there a need for these laws? Isn't English already the language of the United States? Yes and no.

Does it pay to speak English? This column by Mehtabul Azam, an economist at the World Bank, Aimee Chin, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and Nishith Prakash, Visiting ...

You may find English difficult to speak if you don’t use it every day. You may know all the grammar rules and a variety of words. But you fail to use them during the conversation. So, why does this ...

While English is the most commonly spoken language in the United States, it is actually illegal to speak it in this state. In a bill from 1923, Representative Washington J. McCormick of Montana had ...

About half of U.S. Latinos who don’t speak Spanish well say they have been shamed by other Latinos for it, a Pew Research Center survey has found, though 75% of all Latinos say they can speak the ...

New research suggests that English speakers put more droplets into the air when they talk, which may make them more likely to spread COVID-19. Since the novel coronavirus is spread by droplets, how ...