With all of the turmoil roiling the country, a new way to show your love for these 50 states is to get off the damned phone and mind-numbing social media channels. Instead, embrace reading.

Most of what you see on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok is material picked by someone else to try to get you to stay on a device as long as possible so you can see their ads for some crap that you don’t need.

Don’t think all of this screen time is having an effect? It doesn’t take a crack Internet researcher to learn that phone screen usage is increasing dramatically. A 2025 study showed the average amount of time Americans spend on phone screens is a whopping 5 hours and 16 minutes – every day. That’s a 14% increase over the previous year and represents almost as much time spent pondering nothin

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