This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman who wanted advice about establishing herself as a book ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our ...

(The Center Square) – Two hundred seventy-four incidents involving interference with free speech have taken place so far on college campuses in 2025, according to FIRE data, an increase from 2020’s ...

Jimmy Kimmel has used a Christmas television address to spread tidings of comfort and joy — except if you are Donald Trump. The U.S. late-night host addressed the British nation in Channel 4‘s ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out the blueprint for what will likely be his presidential campaign in 2028, with a surprisingly low-energy speech in his final “State of the State” address Thursday.

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“We are the free world now.” Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration ...