Rosemary Salomone, a linguist and a lawyer, is a professor of law at St. John’s University in New York. Her most recent book is The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. Back in ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in ...