General elections are fast approaching in the United States. There are plenty of implications for the language services industry who operate or do business in Uncle Sam’s backyard, which — unlike most countries throughout the world — claims no official language. Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act requires that bilingual ballots, bilingual voter registration […]

While campaigning in South Carolina this April, Hillary Clinton commented, “I think America is ready for a multilingual president.” We would applaud this statement, except for one key fact.  It comes just a couple of centuries too late. After all, multilingualism among U.S. commanders-in-chief is a time-honored American tradition.