Book bans mired at record high

The American Library Association (ALA) says publication bans stay stubbornly high, announcing that 2025 saw the second-highest documented level of publication challenges, narrowly missing the apical spot recorded successful 2023.   The radical recovered arsenic portion of its State of America’s Libraries Report that 4,235 unsocial titles were  challenged successful 2025, compared to 4,240 successful 2023.  ALA defines a challenge…