Prologue

Even people who vehemently disagreed with Heider Garcia wanted him to stay in his job.

Among the big items in DeSantis's run for president is medical freedom.

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.

Studs Terkel, the Chicago reporter who recorded oral histories of ordinary Americans, died last week.