Map Shows States With Most Banned Books - Newsweek
Oct 3, 2024 · PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of books being banned in the 2022-23 academic year, an increase of 33 percent from the previous year. Drawing on data from the World Population Review,...
PEN America - The Freedom to Write
Dec 6, 2024 · PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world.
Most Democratic States 2024 - World Population Review
To determine which states lean the most democratic, the Cook Partisan Voting Index can be used. The Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) is a measurement of how strongly a U.S. state or congressional district leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party …
Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor - PEN America
Sep 1, 2023 · Examining states with book bans against recent voting patterns, 19 of these 33 states (58 percent) voted Republican during the 2020 presidential election, while 14 states (42 percent) voted Democratic. However, Republican-leaning states had more districts banning books than Democratic-leaning states; 50 districts out of 153 (33 percent) are in ...
America’s Censored Classrooms 2024 - PEN America
Oct 8, 2024 · Since 2021, PEN America has tracked and analyzed educational gag orders: state legislation and policies that restrict teaching about topics such as race, gender, and LGBTQ+ identity in educational settings. 1 Over that time, most educational censorship bills and policies followed a settled pattern.
Red and Blue States 2024 - Data Pandas
Swing states, which fluctuate between Republican and Democratic alignment, are interspersed throughout the nation but notably include competitive regions such as Florida, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
State & Local Political Maps – Democrat & Republican Areas in …
Our political maps are powered by data analyzed across multiple years in major elections across the country. Area shaded in deeper blue tend to vote more Democratic while the red shaded areas on our maps are more Republican enclaves.
Red states and blue states - Wikipedia
Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and …
Pen America - Global Democracy Coalition
PEN America works to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others.
PEN America - Wikipedia
PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, [3] and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization [4] whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights.