Growing up in the South, Cracker Barrel felt a bit like a theme park attraction. Its down-home frills, Old Country Store merch, and cartoonishly indulgent comfort food embody…
Read more Cracker Barrel didn’t ‘go woke.’ It just went broke.Valentina Gomez, a Republican running for Missouri secretary of state, posted a video to social media this week in which she blowtorched books, falsely claimed that books with…
Read more GOP Candidate Literally Burns Books In Twitter VideoFollowing multiple contentious meetings with Hall and Barton, who pressed board members to reconsider Durst’s candidacy, in late June, he was selected by a 3-2 vote. After his…
Read more “People Have to Wake Up”: From the Front Lines of Idaho’s School Board Battles Against the Far RightTeachers in Iowa are scrambling to remove books from their classrooms that might not comply with a new law. However, educators say the law is vague and confusing…
Read more Republicans Have Thrown Teachers A New ‘Chaos Bomb’On a Sunday afternoon in late May 2022, Zander Moricz, then class president of Sarasota County’s Pine View School, spent the moments before his graduation speech sitting outside the…
Read more “Smart People Are Falling for Stupid Lies”: How One Florida County Has Become Ground Zero for the Far-Right’s Education BlitzEditor’s Note: Sophia Brown is a senior at New College of Florida and editor of the school newspaper, The Catalyst. The views expressed here are her own. Read…
Read more Opinion: Ron DeSantis brought his culture wars to my college campus | CNNAt this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the culture war reigned supreme. “When our schools teach kids to be ashamed of America, when they teach the 1619 Project…
Read more The GOP’s 2020s Culture War Is A Throwback To The 1970sThey are coming to steal your child. They are flushing fully-formed babies down the toilet. And they are worshipping the gods of infanticide. These are just a few…
Read more How the Right Is Turning Political Paranoia Into “Parents’ Rights”Declaring it a “positively dystopian” assault on free speech, a U.S. district judge blocked enforcement of provisions of a Florida law banning state university professors from expressing certain…
Read more Federal Judge Blocks Ron DeSantis’ ‘Positively Dystopian’ Stop WOKE ActCNN — Tudor Dixon, the Republican taking on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in November’s midterm election, is turning to tactics that have worked for other Republican winners in…
Read more Tudor Dixon seeks a culture war in campaign against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer | CNN Politics
