Act One, Continued

A middle schooler really wants to trust the adults have her best interests in mind.

DeSantis has passed law after law about what can and can’t be taught in Florida classrooms, starting as early as elementary school. And last spring, Florida Republicans introduced a bill initially proposing to ban things like critical race theory and identity politics, or students majoring in things like gender studies in Florida universities. Reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi followed how things unfolded at one of the biggest universities there, Florida State, from the bill’s introduction all the way to its passage.

Over the last few years, producer Chana Joffe-Walt has been checking in with someone who wears the mantle of being “it” well.

When he was a teenager, Haider Hamza worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Information.