Covid-19 is speeding the demise of many endangered languages. The remaining native speakers are usually old, and thus in special danger from the disease.

A language, like a species, is a self-propagating bundle of information. If its propagation is interrupted, it is lost forever.

Passing a language through a stage of existing only in dictionaries and teaching tools is damaging, too — comparable in a very broad sense to a population bottleneck that strips a species of genetic diversity.

Potowatomi's close relative, Ojibwe, is much healthier.

Biden plans to extend the bully's war on fentanyl.

The National Security Education Day celebration in Hong Kong sold souvenirs of the repression of 2019.

I wonder how long before China takes note of anyone who does not buy them with proper enthusiasm.

It is difficult for journalists to adapt their methods to the awareness that cops often lie.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Washington DC statehood bill.

If you sign, please spread the word!