Heavy Medal
September 18, 2025 by Betsy Bird
It may be a one-of-a-kind picture book, at least in the history of American publishing. A picture book about a mayoral candidate put out by a major publisher? How did this happen?
June 13, 2018 by Betsy Bird
I was reading the Social Justice Books post Scholastic Tells Children: Trump is Great yesterday, which makes a close and thorough examination of a new Scholastic Rookie Biography of the current sitting president. While looking at it, the piece got me to thinking about other relatively children’s books which have included Donald Trump in some […]
October 5, 2011 by Betsy Bird
All right. Test Subject A is still sleeping through the night but due to events beyond our control she has decided to go to bed two hours later than usual. So it is 10:00 p.m. and I’m only just starting my blogging on this post. And a Fusenews night at that? Better slip on my […]
Politics in Practice
by John Chrastka
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