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Well, we want to turn now to the sharp rise in book bands in America's schools and libraries.

Governor Doug Ducey signed into law

bills targeting transgender and abortion rights, inserting Arizona into the culture wars.

Iowa lawmakers considered legislation

preventing transgender females

from participating in girls and women's sports.

Monuments torn down or caught it off by work crews, symbols being reconsidered as a

full and fast reexamination of America's checkered past is playing out in real time.

Critical race theory.

It is a debate dividing schools across the United States.

And Republicans like former President Trump have been seizing on the issue in final campaign pitches.

America's Culture Wars. They've become so ubiquitous. It's hard to imagine a time

where politics wasn't defined exclusively by a battle for America. a time

never actually existed.

Perhaps that time never actually existed.

And the story of this country is the story of a perpetual battle towards the ideal that is E. Pluribus unum, out of many

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