In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers ...

Here’s what we’re turning to for clarity and perspective on our current political moment. By Jess Bidgood The last few months have felt like a political thriller, an epic co-written by Shakespeare and ...

The news cycle is increasingly intense, and most of us can barely keep up these days. A huge part of what is dominating our news content, from television screens to phones, is politics. One day, we’re ...

After a star-studded Democratic National Convention full of impassioned cries to get out the vote, it’s hard not to feel like the country is on the verge of electing its first Black female President.

The approach of the presidential election has people in both parties in doomscrolling mode. Some Republicans are creating elaborate conspiracy theories about voter fraud in swing states. Some ...

At times of political and cultural upset, literature has often been a way for society to process, understand, and push back against unethical policies or administrations. Many of the most well known ...

Can BookTok be apolitical? Credit: Mashable Composite; Carolyn Ann Ryan / Moment / MiroNovak / iStock / Getty / @finepressedition / @them_yangs / @jacobsreadingg / @kennyslifejourney / @paigepaige144 ...

Arch Campbell and Pat Collins are two of DC’s more prominent retired TV news figures, and though they were colleagues at NBC4, these days they’re embroiled in a (friendly) literary rivalry: They’re ...

Canada has seen a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence, adding to concerns about how new technologies are affecting the information voters receive during the ...