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Launched in 1982 as a national daily written to be read quickly, and long the highest-circulation newspaper in the country. Its parent, formerly Gannett, renamed itself USA TODAY Co. in 2025.
It is deliberately written for a national audience with no assumed political starting point, and it stopped making presidential endorsements. Critics argue that its brevity leaves little room for the detail that makes a policy argument comprehensible, and that avoiding a position is not the same as providing context.