This is an opinion cartoon and column. “Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

This story has been updated. After years of trying to address the high costs of electronic and audiobooks for libraries, state representatives on Thursday gave final passage to a bill that would ban ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides grants to libraries and museums nationwide, has been effectively shuttered and its staff placed on administrative leave. This ...