With the articles of impeachment against of Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, readers should pay close attention to how arguments are framed. During the March 2026 House Oversight ...

Decades ago, Professor Edward Said published a book called “Covering Islam”. In it, he warned that Western media does not simply report on the Muslim world, it constructs it. Using loaded language, a ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

BBC Verify Correspondent Merlyn Thomas explains how she debunks false claims in our "bad information economy".

The 43-year-old, who faces a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years, stared straight ahead from the prisoner's box as the judge read her judgment.

The structural advantages and limitations of single-language-pair agency models versus multilingual generalists.

The language of war has long wrapped itself in the rhetoric of courage and the honour of vengeance, drawing on moral and religious appeals to make violence appear necessary, even just. Today, that ...

A cutting-edge large language model (LLM) outperformed human doctors in common clinical reasoning tasks including emergency room decisions, identifying likely diagnoses, and choosing next steps in ...

Sometimes a dream succeeds in grabbing your attention through an image that turns out to be a play on words. In this example, ...

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

While Israel is at war and political attempts to prevent the IDF from receiving cooperation are growing-from the UN to Italy to Capitol Hill-at least in Tennessee there was a moment of true sanity and ...

Cigarette smuggling generates billions of dollars annually worldwide, including in the Sahel. This complex trade originates in the Balkans and the United Arab Emirates, passes through North Africa, ...