IOWA CITY — Shortly after U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Thursday called for the University of Iowa to name is new legislative-imposed Center for Intellectual Freedom after slain ...

Researchers, professors, and scientists are leaving Donald Trump’s America in increasing numbers, choosing to settle in Canada. Their reasons are often the same: concern over the country’s ...

University of Delaware commemorated Banned Books Week with conversations on access, representation and the power of choosing what to read Students listened intently while Petra Clark, a UD special ...

At the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, publishers and authors spotlighted the surge in US book bans targeting works on LGBTQ+ and racial themes. With over 9,000 titles challenged in 2023, largely by ...

The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics underscore how innovation and openness fuel progress—offering lessons for the US–China AI race and the fragility of growth. The 2025 Nobel Memorial ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials ...

As Banned Books Week – an event drawing focus to and challenging book banning by the state and federal legislature – comes to a close, Iowa City community librarians are speaking out for the right to ...

A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the Pentagon to restore books and curriculum removed from schools serving military families under the Trump administration’s campaign to purge so-called “woke” ...

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) – which runs schools for more than 67,000 military-connected children – violated students’ First Amendment rights when it removed books and ...

Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra in the 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy was one of the most beloved children’s book series of the 2000s — and one of ...

After two years of litigation over Texas House Bill 900, a federal judge has granted summary judgment and ordered a permanent injunction to block the mandatory book ratings law. In his October 21 ...

IU Chancellor David Reingold replaced Mark Roseman, former director of the Borns Jewish Studies program, in August. He tapped Günther Jikeli, a Germanic and Jewish Studies professor and Institute for ...