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The New Rules of Podcasting Are Making Our Debates—and Us—Dumber
I celebrated the rise of new media, writes Konstantin Kisin. What could go wrong with “democratizing information”? As it turns out, quite a lot. Witness…
Konstantin Kisin
Trump Turns Off the ‘Disinformation’ Spigot. Plus. . .
Is Trump defying the Supreme Court? Jed Rubenfeld says: Hold on a minute. Should Luigi Mangione get the death penalty? We battle it out. Ross Douthat…
River Page
Ross Douthat: Why It’s Logical to Believe in God
The New York Times columnist on why miracles are ‘perfectly rational,’ what he’s praying for this Easter, and the contest for Elon Musk’s soul.
Bari Weiss
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No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
The exaggerations on both sides are spectacular. The truth? There’s less to the case than meets the eye, writes Jed Rubenfeld.
Jed Rubenfeld
Should the Menendez Brothers Be Released?
Increasingly, judges are giving lighter sentences to criminals who suffered abuse during childhood. That could be good news for Erik and Lyle Menendez.
Esther Haynes
Fight Club: Execute Luigi Mangione?
Charles Fain Lehman says Mangione’s alleged crime is the very reason the death penalty exists. Nick Gillespie says the government has no business taking…
Charles Fain Lehman  and Nick Gillespie
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas
Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known…
Frannie Block
Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a canceling spree, they tell The Free Press.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
The Trump White House and the New Opium Wars
The unraveling of U.S.–China economic ties echoes a darker chapter of history, when a trade dispute between the East and the West escalated into the…
Eli Lake
Trump vs. Harvard. Plus. . .
Charles Lane and Chris Rufo weigh in on the showdown. Plus: The state of the race in the 51st state. Steve Witkoff reverses course. And much more.
Oliver Wiseman
Harvard Had It Coming. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Is Right.
The school is taking a stand for academic freedom, writes Charles Lane. How long will it last?
Charles Lane
Welcome to This Week in Canada, from The Free Press
How did Pierre Poilievre lose a 20-point lead? Trucker organizers face 10 years in prison. Antisemitism at McGill University. And much more from the…
Rupa Subramanya
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