Moms for Liberty Bullies Florida District Over Goblin Butt in Children’s Book

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Continue reading Moms for Liberty Bullies Florida District Over Goblin Butt in Children’s Book

Florida’s Book Ban Is Now Targeting… Dictionaries?

A Florida school district has banned multiple versions of the dictionary for including sexual content. Yes, you read that right. The Escambia County School District, located in Florida’s panhandle, has allegedly removed five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of Continue reading Florida’s Book Ban Is Now Targeting… Dictionaries?

Someone Called the Cops to a Massachusetts School … Over a Book

Free speech advocates are slamming a police officer going to a Massachusetts middle school to search for a single book. On December 8, an anonymous caller contacted the police department in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to complain that an obscene book Continue reading Someone Called the Cops to a Massachusetts School … Over a Book

New Book: Tucker Carlson and Trump Plotted in 2020 to Spread “Dead Voters” Theory

In the waning months of 2020, Fox was in a bind. It had helped peddle Donald Trump’s election lies and built a hungry audience for the unfounded conspiracy. Ultimately, though, the news network needed to concede that Joe Biden had Continue reading New Book: Tucker Carlson and Trump Plotted in 2020 to Spread “Dead Voters” Theory

Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten

Teachers union head Randi Weingarten says that the campaign by conservatives to ban books isn’t about the books at all, but part of a broader strategy to destroy public schools—one that was supercharged by the pandemic. “You take the agita Continue reading Book Bans Are a Conservative Plot to Destroy Public Schools, Says Randi Weingarten

How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails

This central section of the book is its weakest. Lewis does not understand cryptocurrency—he admits explicitly, in a bizarre footnote, that he finds crypto “elusive” to understand—and makes a poor guide for an already convoluted tale. Despite his formidable narrative Continue reading How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails