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Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Episode: What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Decoder Ring | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie…Will He Want a Welfare Check?
Description: While the What Next team is having a holiday, take this journey with our colleagues over at Decoder Ring. What Next will be back in your feed on Monday.Adults have a long history of trying to find morals and lessons in children’s literature. But what happens when a seemingly innocent book about a boy and a hungry mouse becomes fodder for the culture wars? Over the last decade, Laura Joffe Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has been adopted by some on the right as a cautionary tale about government welfare. In t...