On the surface, it seems like 2022 was a year of conservative triumph in the courts and in schools, as US Supreme Court decisions about religion and education joined other precedent-smashing opinions about abortion rights

Fans of the discredited way to teach reading a dangerous cult
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Who are the most dangerous cultists — adherents of a belief system regarded as unorthodox or spurious, to use a common definition