The Nation spoke with the Kenyan novelist, essayist, and playwright—before his death—about his most recent essay collection ...

Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

For critics of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Wednesday may have become the new, unofficial date of “Liberation Day.” There were recent signs of desperation on the part of the administration as the ...

At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived - not in the flesh, but in South Africa's Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's best-known drama, Waiting for ...

Wright’s Barbecue in Johnson, Arkansas—just a stone’s throw from Fayetteville—is precisely that kind of revelation. This modest white building with its simple wooden deck might not stop traffic with ...

As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to ...

The drone attacks, one of Ukraine’s broadest assaults of the war, came as another round of cease-fire negotiations was expected on Monday in Istanbul. 5 min read Trump Administration LIVE Trump ...

However, relatively little attention has been paid to another key aspect that affects replicability: language. Across fields, language plays a central role in all steps of the research cycle and ...