Americans who want to protect democracy need to stand up for public libraries  ...Middle East

Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America’s civic infrastructure, are now under attack in many places across the country. Every day, librarians are harassed, threatened and intimidated for doing their jobs by people who want to turn libraries into bloody battlefields in the culture wars that are dividing this country and undermining democracy.  States like Florida and Texas have passed laws to regulate, restrict or censor the material that libraries can offer their patrons. Efforts to ban books have even occurred in Massachusetts, among the bluest of blue states.  According to an article in Time, in 2022 “(T)here were 1,269 attempts to censor library books, the highe

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