What Books Are Really Getting Banned?

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A lot of ink has been spilled over “book bans” in the last few years. The media have reported breathlessly about censorship sweeping the nation, claiming that books about race, gender, and sexuality are being pulled from school library shelves in Republican-run states.
But is that really what’s going on? In a new investigation for The Free Press, James …
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