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September 15, 2025
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Susan Milligan
The Former NFL Player Who Embodies the Rage of the Trump Resistance
Chris Kluwe exemplifies the engaged civil disobedience we desperately need in this time.
June 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Sotomayor Rips SCOTUS for Causing Total “Chaos” in LGBTQ Books Case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the Supreme Court was actually enabling censorship.
June 27, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Supreme Court Rules Homophobic Books Bans in Schools Are OK
The Supreme Court determined parents can “opt out” of letting their children see LGBTQ books in the classroom.
January 13, 2025
J. Dylan Sandifer
Why the Christian Right Demonizes Discourse
Their toxic fear of ideas is shaping the modern censorship movement.
October 9, 2024
Jonathan W. Gray
Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record
A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.
April 8, 2024
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
MAGA Rage Targeting Local Librarians Is Getting Uglier
The culture warriors are inventing new ways to make public libraries and schools into nastier, angrier, more divided, less inclusive spaces.
August 17, 2023
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
Moms for Liberty Recruits a New Class of Aggrieved Mothers
The burgeoning group, which has scored hundreds of school board election victories, is busy drafting more “joyful warriors” to take control of the Republican agenda.
May 16, 2023
Jennifer C. Berkshire
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Jack Schneider
Public Schools Are in Danger
Democrats may be winning the culture war in the classroom, but a fight against right-wing book banning won't be enough to save public eduction.
March 16, 2023
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Melissa Gira Grant
Conservatives Are Trying to Ban Books in Your Town. Librarians Are Fighting Back.
How a right-wing mania is destroying the social fabric of communities across America
March 2, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Ron DeSantis Is Chasing Conservative Clout at the Expense of His Real Constituents
The governor and 2024 aspirant is building his national brand by making life hell for regular Floridians.
May 13, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Dumb Reason a Book-Banning Republican Senator Got a Major Publishing Award
The Association of American Publishers awarded Republican Senator Thom Tillis for his work on copyright.
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