AUSTIN, Texas — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original article here. Before finalizing changes to Texas’ social studies standards next ...

Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark. Ever eager to whitewash reality so it matches his MAGA fever dream, President Donald Trump last month proclaimed that the White House plans ...

The Texas State Board of Education announced last week that it has hired anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist David Barton as an “expert content advisor” to revise the state’s social studies standards ...

Historian David Barton wrote that President Barack Obama was the most Biblically hostile president in U.S. history. Barton said because of Obama’s disrespectful treatment and antipathy toward both ...

Political operative David Barton held up a thick Bible with years of wear on its dark brown cover and proclaimed its pages put Protestant Christianity at the center of the country’s very foundation.

Barton’s appointment comes ahead of what is expected to be a politically charged debate over how and what children should learn about history.

Before finalizing changes to Texas’ social studies standards next summer, the Republican-dominated State Board of Education will consider input from a conservative Christian activist who views ...

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Christian activist David Barton, left, will serve as an expert content adviser for the Texas State Board of Education as it develops a new social studies agenda. (Bob Daemmrich, Bob Daemmrich) Sign up ...