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Investigation · 100 years of data

How America Stopped Reading

We spent a century winning near-universal literacy, then quietly closed the books in about forty years. A fully-sourced look at who still reads, who quit, and what actually broke the habit. Seven charts, a hundred years of receipts.

July 1, 2026 · 14-min read · Read the investigation →