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Struggles with reading comprehension. Debates over the role of social-emotional learning in classrooms. The prevalence of cheating through the use of AI. Those are just a few of the topics that made ...

Reading stories regularly strengthens social-cognitive skills—such as empathy—in both children and adults. And this, in turn, ensures that we can empathize with characters more effectively and more ...

Curling up with a good book isn’t just enjoyable. It’s also good for your brain. Reading in general — newspapers, magazines, nonfiction books — has been linked to slower rates of cognitive decline in ...

Are you trying to get back into reading? Looking for something easy to dip into during your lunch breaks, or in between dips in the pool while on vacation? What could be better than a book where each ...

Our editors recommend a single newly published—or newly relevant—must-read from The Atlantic. Sign up for the newsletter here. The president’s recent Truth Social barrage of fake images reflects the ...

Neuroscientists mapping the brain have discovered that reading fiction taps into the same brain networks as real life experience. When you are engaged in reading a fictional story your brain is ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t ...

In 2025, it felt like we simultaneously took a leap into the future and were hurtled back a few decades. So it’s no surprise that Intelligencer readers gravitated to stories that helped make sense of ...