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Nine Everyday Sayings That Are a Total Home Run (Thanks to Baseball)

Baseball isn’t just America’s pastime — it’s also a linguistic MVP. Over the past 150 years, the sport has enriched our everyday conversations with phrases that most people use without…
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We Need Diverse Books

When I was in graduate school, working on a degree in teaching, I was especially keen to learn how to teach reading so that all students would end up loving…

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The Death of Truth

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” — George Orwell Starting on May 30, Planet Word is launching the first…

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Losing Iowa

I’m from Iowa originally, and being a smallish, quiet state, there was never much to brag about — no professional sports teams, no especially big cities, no astounding geological spectacles…