Can you read as well as a ten-year-old?

Adults in rich countries are less literate than they were a decade ago. That requires attention

Machine translation is almost a solved problem

But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task

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Inside Bashar al-Assad’s dungeons

With the dictator gone, Syrians are desperately searching for loved ones lost in his prisons