Better job prospects and richer lives are among the many reasons to learn a foreign language. Half...
Day: January 14, 2020
A linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical. I met the last speaker of Naati...
Pharmaceutical companies have paid doctors billions of dollars for consulting, promotional talks, meals and more. Doctors who...
For patients who need specialty drugs, the problem is worse, with no relief in sight. My husband,...
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out...
Tattoo patterns and art on the face and body differed from one Polynesian island group to the...
While corporate power has grown, the power of workers and communities has been steadily eroded. Allen White’s...
The history of slave rebels and resistance in the Caribbean is a rich and complicated story. Marissa:...
It was justified by reference to historical myths that nobles and servile peasants were separated by courage...
A few people have had the luxury of enjoying representative governments in human history. Most of the...