President Donald Trump’s edict this past week declaring English as our official language is at odds with America's long traditions of meeting immigrants halfway in their heritage languages. It ...

Mark Turin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Ross Perlin has received funding from the National Science ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel J. Olson, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) English should be the official ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 25, 2025. (Alex Wong) In no time at ...

The Handbook of Texas keeps a lot of secrets in plain sight. It tells us extraordinary stories about immigrants. Germans, for example, came to Texas in the mid-1800s and lived in enclaves creating a ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first time in American history such a designation has been made.

The United States has never had a national language in its nearly 250-year history—until now. President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Friday that will make English the official ...

Trump's newest executive order also rescinds a Clinton-era mandate that required federally funded organizations to offer ...

“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring English as the United States’ official language, the first designation of such kind in the country’s near 250-year history. “From the ...

Daniel J. Olson has previously received funding from the National Science Foundation. English should be the official language of the United States, says an executive order signed by President Donald ...