When Karen Smith took her oath as the new president of the Central Bucks County, Pa., school board, she opted to forgo the Bible her colleagues used—instead placing her hand on a stack of contested ...

Is your Spotify Wrapped a bluff? While digital algorithms track our listening, an analog "book stack" offers a deeper look at our intentions. From Timothy Snyder to Hans Fallada, here is how one ...

If you're a devoted reader, chances are you have plenty of books lying around your home, and while bookcases are the typical vessel to hold and organize them, it's not the only way to put your ...

Democrat Karl Frisch was sworn in for his second term on the Fairfax County School Board with a stack of books banned in other school systems for sexually controversial content Thursday. "He was sworn ...

As she was sworn in to another term on the Central Bucks school board Monday night, Karen Smith placed her hand not on a Bible, but a stack of frequently banned books. Smith, who was chosen as the ...

After a contested election in Pennsylvania, control of a local school board has flipped from a Republican majority to a Democratic one. Its new leader is now fighting back against policies that ...

Time to Log Off is a weekly series documenting the many ways our political figures show their whole asses online. Ordinarily, when someone proves themselves to be aggressively, embarrassingly too ...

Have you tucked into a romance novel lately? If not, you might be in the minority of readers. Romance sales are soaring. Last year, they grew twice as fast as the rest of the fiction market. In the ...

Taking shelter in the Strand, an encounter with a very tall man and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. Dear Diary: My wife and I were walking back to our West ...