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August 18, 2025
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Sarah Stankorb
How a Group of Michigan Parents Defeated Anti-Trans MAGA Activists
The right has swept into school boards and made bigoted policy the norm. Fighting back may be easier than it looks.
August 8, 2025
Magazine
Jen Manion
Learning History Is a Righteous Form of Resistance
It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.
September 3, 2024
Michael Tomasky
The Media Are About to Help Trump Fail His Way Back to the White House
A truly idiotic Politico headline. A deeply embarrassing Times piece on Trump’s housing “policy.” How can these people be doing this again?
April 8, 2024
Podcast
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.
March 11, 2024
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Moms for Liberty Is Slowly Imploding, and That’s Bad for MAGA in 2024
With Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler embroiled in scandal, the group is now on the defensive—and that will hurt Republicans in this fall’s elections.
January 4, 2024
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Melissa Gira Grant
The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools
Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.
September 26, 2023
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Jasmine Liu
Everything You Need to Know About the Right-Wing War on Books
Here’s your guide to the heroes and villains—plus a list of the 50 most banned books.
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.
March 16, 2023
Magazine
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
January 11, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
The Conservatives Who Attacked School Boards in 2022 Are Now Going After Libraries
Moms for Libraries is set to inject right-wing politics into school reading shelves.
October 19, 2022
David Masciotra
The Growing Religious Alliance to Ban LGBTQ Books
Conservative Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, have joined forces with right-wing Christians in a bigoted crusade against gay and trans literature in public schools.
September 22, 2022
Melissa Gira Grant
Happy Banned Book Week! Schools Are Increasingly Going After LGBTQ Books.
In the last year, works by more than 1,200 authors were banned, affecting nearly four million students.
July 28, 2022
Magazine
Melissa Gira Grant
The Arizona Republican Primary Is Ground Zero for America’s Hysteria Over Critical Race Theory and Drag Queens
Kari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative mothers.
May 31, 2022
Magazine
Laura Jedeed
Moms for Liberty Has Created Nightmares for Schools Across the Country
The group of parents has injected conservative politics into classrooms and reshaped the 2022 midterms.
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