As of January 2021, 11 states have passed laws restricting how teachers can speak about race and racism in schools, and nearly 200 bills have been introduced in 40 states. In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, Galen Druke discusses the context of these laws with contributor Theodore Johnson, director of the grants program … Read more
Former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. (John Nacion / Star Max / IPx) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the nationcheck out our latest issue. Subscribe to the nation … Read more
Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Helmut Newton, Marlene Dietrich, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff escaped. They survived. But geniuses like Wilder and Newton never came back. German culture afterwards was, apart from painting and sculpture, mostly boring moralistic bullshit. And the best writers like Günter … Read more
Virginia’s new governor, Glenn Youngkin, kicked off his term with a political magic trick. In the first of nine executive orders issued on Jan. 15, the day he took office, he banned the teaching of “inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory” in K-12 public schools. It was a smart way to show his base … Read more
The school board of Placentia Yorba Linda is discussing a proposal for a resolution to ban the teaching of critical racial theory in schools. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Subscribe to something The nation Subscribe now for just $ 2 per month! Thank you for signing up The nation‘s weekly newsletter. … Read more