The right bought race and trans hysteria to school board meetings in once scarlet-red Loudoun County. But guess which side won?

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Conservative parents are winning seats by promising to fight the latest right-wing bogeyman.

The conservative hysteria over critical race theory is ultimately a refusal to acknowledge that the country’s classrooms have always taught a white-centric view of U.S. history.

Classes are being canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos are only part of the story.

In a growing number of states, the GOP is pushing “Don’t Say Gay” laws to prevent students from learning about the triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ Americans.

It’s politically savvy for Democrats to avoid wading into the “critical race theory” culture war. It’s also a dereliction of duty.

Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.

A year ago, Christopher Rufo was an obscure documentarian. Now, he’s being invited on Tucker Carlson’s show to gin up fears of Marxism in America.

Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.

The French president is facing a far right that has gained the upper hand in the country’s insidious culture wars. And he has only himself to blame.