Hi to all my fellow Free Pressers! I’m the Community Manager here at The FP and your moderator for our brand new Forum. We could not be more excited to open this next chapter with all of you. My introduction to The Free Press was Bari’s interview with Walter Russell Mead on Honestly: “A World Spinning Out of Control.” I sent it to everyone I knew, then promptly disappeared down the Free Press rabbit hole and never looked back. I’m so proud to work here and still believe The Free Press is exactl

I had an interesting thought hit me today after seeing so many social media posters on facebook trying to draw some meaningful distinction between what they believe as "Social Democrats" and what they declare they are not -- "Democratic Socialists". The problem is, their distinction does nothing to assuage the fears of the person who will still vote against them even if it means we have to vote for President Trump in order to do so (and God knows how many of us there are who dream of world wh

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