A tattoo often comes with a story. And with many American veterans unable or unwilling to tell their stories in words, a pair of veterans have started collecting the stories behind the tattoos to help people understand the wars they fought.
More young Iranian couples are living together before marriage
Many young Iranian couples are choosing to live together before marriage, and the rise in such “white marriages” has Iranian officials worried. But there are also some good reasons why young Iranians don’t want to tie the knot.
Why every Korean kid knows not to keep the fan on over night
The men in Naroop Singh Jhoot and Amit Amin’s photo series, “The Singh Project,” all have three things in common: turbans, beards and the middle name Singh. Yet as the photos show, their personalities — and looks — are extremely diverse.
Pidgin, patois, slang, dialect, creole — English has more forms than you might expect
There’s a growing body of English literature that isn’t written in standard English at all, but rather different dialects and vernaculars. So when does a vernacular language become a language of its own?