You, Free Pressers, have spoken. After reading through all of your recommendations, three clear winners emerged: • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles • East of Eden by John Steinbeck Vote for our first Free Press Forum Book Club selection by commenting below.  We’ll announce the winner shortly afterward, along with everything you need to know to get started. Voting closes Friday, August 7 at 1 p.m. ET. Let the reading begin.

One of the benefits of being a Forum member is getting a glimpse inside The Free Press newsroom. Here are a few of the stories our editors can’t stop talking about this week. JOE NOCERA, Senior Editor and Writer  “You’re Doing Your Annual Physical All Wrong” One of my proudest accomplishments at The Free Press is “discovering” Charlotte Grinberg last year. She is a doctor in her 30s, and what originally caught my eye was a Substack post she had written about dealing with the inevitability of

Outside of the current scrutiny with Fauci's handling of COVID, I've seen some posts online recently from folks who also said he had a hand in contributing to deaths during the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s. Wondering if anyone with knowledge of this can point me to any credible sources online that documents whatever history there is with Fauci during this era, since I'm not as read up on it.