*Hunger Cliffs Looms in US With Extra Food Benefits Set to Expire.*

*Biden urged not to approve oil terminals that could create ‘carbon bombs’.*

Sanders proposed to block US aid to Israel because of its anti-democratic moves and its increasing repression of Palestinians.

*Paper calls for assessment of impact of sound pollution on cetaceans before firms allowed to mine sea bed.*

*Banning ideas and authors is not a "culture war" — it's fascism.*

This explains the purpose and operation of DeMentis's censorship law in a way I have not seen before. I did not know the work of the authors that were removed from the AP African American studies course; this article explains the significance of their work and the systematic purpose of censoring them.

In the past, we could count on the Supreme Court to reject censorship laws. I have no confidence in the right-wingers who have captured it to reject the new ones.

Nonetheless, to teach that a person is guilty of past crimes committed by others due to sharing their demographic characteristics is itself an injustice, a form of oppression. It is also unnecessary, if the goal is to teach people to recognize the wrong and reject it. Young Americans are not guilty of the crimes of previous generations, but could easily fall into a life of similar crimes.

We should teach about those past crimes, not to inculcate a feeling of guilt into those who "look like" those who committed them, but to show them what they _might_ become if they are not careful. Instead of teaching, "You were born guilty of that," we should teach, "Watch out — you could become guilty of that. Right-wing extremists such as DeMentis would be glad to get you started."

I wish the artlcle were not marred by showing the fashionable symbol of left-wing bigotry: capitalizing the word "black" and not "white".