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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.
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 10, 2024
Ben Metzner
TNR Takes the Anti-Censorship Fight to the Belly of the Beast
Last Saturday’s event in Ron DeSantis’s Florida with Lauren Groff and Jodi Picoult struck a blow for free expression.
April 17, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Ron DeSantis Suddenly Pretends He Hates the Thing He Loves the Most
The Florida governor is trying to backtrack on some of his signature legislation.
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.
September 15, 2023
Melissa Gira Grant
Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are
Anti-LGBTQ activists are increasingly targeting public reading spaces—and librarians are our best defenders.
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
February 7, 2023
Prem Thakker
Florida School District Bans Entire Court of Thorns and Roses Series in New Book Ban
The school district banned 23 books, including other bestsellers. Here’s the full list.
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.
May 31, 2022
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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.
November 16, 2021
Esther Wang
Conservative White Parents Want the Freedom to Ban Books
Around the country, conservative parents are merging moral panics about critical race theory and queerness into one noxious package.
November 23, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Dangerous Inversions of the Debate Around Trans “Censorship”
The author of a book on the supposed “transgender craze seducing our daughters” claims she is being silenced. It is a very loud silence.
July 25, 2014
Leo Robson
Don’t Read This Book: A History of Literary Censorship
September 2, 1946
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George Soule
Orwell’s Fables
George Orwell's story is too close to recent historical events without being close enough.
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