Cotton Proposal to Withhold Funding Based on 1619 Project Wrong-Headed, Malicious
"Penalizing schools for teaching history is a shocking and shameful proposal, particularly when it comes from a U.S. senator." More
The Rhetoric of Media “Complicity” in the Age of Trump
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