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Eric Levitz @ Vox · 06/24/2025 06:05 EDT

Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. If you aren’t feeling the itch yet, you will soon.  It could come by the end of this sentence or, on a good day, the fifth paragraph. But before long, a […]

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