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The Brainwashing of My Dad A filmmaker explores the radical change of her once Democratic father to an angry right-wing fanatic after his immersion in talk radio and Fox News. She discovers this to be a powerful phenomenon that has divided families across the nation.

Panemunė: The scenic road that saved Europe's banned language For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule.

The End of Foreign-Language Education Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language.

Edith Grossman, eminent translator of Spanish literature, dies at 87 She made the marvels of Cervantes and Gabriel García Márquez available to English readers and championed translation as an art form in its own right.

God help the translators!

Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do? The pernicious spread of garbage language.