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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman collegiate professor of English and linguistics at the University of Michigan, where she is also dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Some of ...

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 ...

Survival is the only way to play right now, though having played it extensively I’d be surprised if the eventual campaign on developer Numantian Games’ roadmap ends up being anything more than a ...

Independents often are portrayed as political free agents with the potential to alleviate the nation’s rigid partisan divisions. Yet the reality is that most independents are not all that “independent ...