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August 9, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
MAGA’s “Tampon Tim” Attack on Tim Walz Quickly Falls Apart
Republicans’ newest smear of Kamala Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is crumbling in the face of facts.
August 7, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Republicans Officially Enact Their Most Extreme School Book Ban
A Republican trifecta in Utah has taken school book bans to their most dystopian level yet.
August 6, 2024
Paige Oamek
Kamala’s V.P. Pick Sparks Major Endorsements That Should Scare Trump
Kamala Harris choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate has triggered an outpouring of support from labor unions.
July 12, 2024
Timothy Noah
The GOP Platform Is a Cruel Blueprint for Causing Misery
From immigration to censorship to health care and beyond, Trump’s Republican platform is a laundry list of reasons to vote Democratic.
July 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Top GOPer Says This Bonkers Rule Would Have Saved Steve Bannon
Oklahoma’s state education official thinks Christian nationalism would have kept Bannon out of jail.
June 27, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Deranged Ten Commandments Law Is Already Spawning Copycats
Another Christian nationalist mandate has hit public schools, this time in Oklahoma.
June 24, 2024
Ben Metzner
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Already on Its Way to Supreme Court
Louisiana’s governor said he can’t wait to be sued. He just got what he wanted.
June 24, 2024
Edith Olmsted
South Carolina to Launch Biggest Censorship Campaign Yet
The South Carolina state superintendent of education is about to gut school libraries.
June 21, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Surprising Promise to Immigrants Quickly Retracted by Campaign
Donald Trump made a shocking pledge to help international students—only for his campaign to immediately add some caveats.
June 21, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Disturbing Message on Lousiana’s Ten Commandments Law
Donald Trump has come out in support of forced religion.
June 11, 2024
Ben Metzner
The Toni Morrison Award Winners: Fighters in the Censorship Trenches
Five award recipients at Saturday night’s Right to Read celebration talk about what drives them.
May 31, 2024
Talia Jane
Columbia University, Epicenter of Gaza Protests, Launches New Revolt
The school that kicked off nationwide student protests for Palestine is back at it.
May 23, 2024
Talia Jane
North Carolina Becomes the Latest Victim of a Far-Right Scam
UNC has caved to a conservative campaign to roll back DEI policies nationwide.
May 21, 2024
Katherine Kelaidis
The Religious Battle Behind Harrison Butker’s Culture-War Speech
The rise of trad Catholicism is sowing discord at religious institutions—including Benedictine College, where the NFL kicker made his controversial remarks.
May 16, 2024
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Jason Stanley
The End of Civic Compassion
On education in a fascist America
May 13, 2024
Talia Jane
Trump’s Biggest Donors Behind Group Doxxing Pro-Palestine Students
These Republican billionaires are backing a shady group harassing college kids.
May 7, 2024
Matt Ford
The Right-Wing Judges’ Ban on Columbia Students Is Wildly Unethical
Thirteen conservative judges say they won’t hire from the university—a blatant abuse of their judicial office.
May 7, 2024
Michael S. Roth
Why I’m Not Calling the Police on My Students’ Encampment
The president of Wesleyan University explains why he’s allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to pitch tents on campus.
May 5, 2024
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Antón Barba-Kay
Unplug the Classroom. Or Reboot It. Just Don’t Do Nothing.
Schools must drastically remake their approach to technology—or continue their ongoing collapse into irrelevance.
May 3, 2024
Aryeh Neier
The Real “Outside Agitators” of These Protests Are Members of Congress
There’s blame to go around here, but this started because a showboating GOP congresswoman lit the match that started this fire.
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