George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has been resistant.

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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown defended a Montgomery County policy that prevented parents from opting out their children from LGBTQ books.

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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