A long-time goal of the far right, the English-as-an-official-language movement is one of xenophobia and racism. That’s simply at the heart of it. It’s ignorance, too.

Last week, we told how the English language developed as a result of several invasions of Britain. The first involved three tribes called the Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons. A mix of their ...

Late 1800s: English Only, but not unanimous. During the fall of 1878, more than a hundred people rode from all corners of the state on horses and horse-drawn buggies to California’s state ...

Sheet of 4¢ U.S. postage stamps featuring Noah Webster (1958) (image courtesy the Grolier Club) Noah Webster, The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, edited by George W. Ogilvie (1907–08) ...

Throughout its history, the United States never had an official language. That is, until President Trump signed an executive order last month, making it English.