Dolly Parton’s Literacy Miracle

Before we get to Dolly (RIP, Queen), I just want to highlight this week’s Bulwark Goes to Hollywood. I talked to Eriq Gardner from Puck about a pretty crazy story involving companies using spurious copyright claims to try and squelch speech. It’s . . . bad! A bad thing. And something we should definitely be wary of as challenges to free speech proliferate. I hope you’ll give it a listen.Dolly Parton reading her book A Coat of Many Colors to children at the Library of Congress in February 2018, as part of an event marking the 100 millionth free book distributed by her Imagination Library. (Photo by Shannon Finney/Getty Images)IF YOU HAVE NOT READ Jill Lawrence’s remembrance of Dolly Parton, you really should: It’s the best kind of obit, not just a catalogue of a career but a personal reflec