book bans
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This is your TPM evening briefing.
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A wholesale refashioning of American myth is under way.
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Uncivil obedience involves following the law but in ways that disregard people’s expectations.
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A Texas county’s refusal to remove two books from the children’s section of the library sparked a yearslong political battle. Now school board races have taken on a deeply partisan tone, and elections serve as a purity test for far-right politics.
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