Utah has a law in which if a book is banned in either 3 public school districts, or 2 public school districts plus 5 charter schools, then it is banned from all public schools statewide, resulting in 28 books being banned from public schools statewide. There are 42 school districts in the state, 2 of them have banned 26 or 27 of the 28 books and are basically responsible for the list.
(A more readable list is in the article but you can click and embiggen the image.)
Just Book 3 of Crank, but not actually Crank, which heavily features prostitution and hard IV drug use?
I love that A Court of Thorns and Roses is super-banned, but 50 Shades of Grey would be allowed.
A Judy Blume book? Did it dare to include a rainbow?
Perks of being a Wallflower really confused me, until I remember that the main character is (A) gay and (B) learning to process sexual trauma. I can see why neither is desirable.
Handmaid’s Tale: Obvious reasons
Looking for Alaska: Still inexplicable
Not sure I know the others, but sounds like I have a reading list.
Note that it’s only the graphic novel version of the Handmaid’s Tale.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood were also banned. Great series.
I’m actually surprised the list is so short, given the extreme minimum requirement for banning.
I credit this to the population’s low reading interest. Possibly low literacy rates, too.
Since when were we bombing Ecuador?
I think it was a couple of weeks ago. Got lost in the news cycle. Hate this timeline.
Several commentators have made similar observations but this one is more evidence-based.
“Trump seems to see Democratic-led states — and the people in them — less as constituents to which he has a set of larger obligations and more as enemies to be pacified and defeated. For Trump, there is no whole people of the United States. There are only his people and his states.”
Pressed on Iran war polling, a key member of Team Trump says a bit too much
From that linked article:
(emphasis added)
Can we be too sure that that’s the case?
I don’t understand how people who don’t live in a city can care what color crosswalks they have in a couple of intersections.
Beacuse the simple act of crossing a rainbow is enough to turn you gay.
I heard just looking at one makes one gay. Constructed by The Devil. And Liberaaaalllls.
People should just keep painting them.
Looks like it declined as much under Obama as it has under Trump.
Peak Freedom was 2007-2010? Spanning the onset and immediate aftermath of the GFC??
I think the chart has a flaw in that it only goes back to 2005.
I suspect that that one might draw a different conclusion if the chart went back at least another 10-20 years (although that’s speculation as I haven’t looked at how they develop the score).
For the US, you probably ought to capture the changes that started with 9/11.
True. I have to assume Freedom peaked back then at an index value above 100. 
