On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster selected its word of the year, not some viral neologism like post-truth or selfie but a word that has been around since the Middle Ages: the pronoun they. Pronouns are ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. They is here. Two major style manuals are now allowing the singular use of “they” in certain circumstances. While this is a ...

People say the darndest things about they/them pronouns. When I tell someone that my pronouns are they/them/their, I never know what to expect. Sometimes people say okay and move on, but other times, ...

WASHINGTON — In vivid detail, and under the bright lights of the House Jan. 6 committee’s hearing room, a former West Wing aide described the final furious — and violent — hours of President Donald ...

It is certainly the most challenging change in language I have dealt with in my lifetime. Ever more people, rejecting the gender binary, are requesting to be referred to as they rather than as he or ...

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