News in Brief Among Presidential Candidates, Trump Uses the Simplest Language That holds for both vocabulary and grammar. Tom Jacobs
Social Justice Don’t Fear Our Changing Language We consistently find people who decry change and fear it will bring about the demise of English as we know it. But it’s totally harmless and offers us a window on the complex system that underlies our knowledge of language. Raffaella Zanuttini
Social Justice A Dozen Words for Misunderstood Slaying, yet again, the idea that the languages we speak shape the thoughts we think. Graeme Wood