It’s Wednesday, February 12. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: DOGE starves the National Endowment for Democracy; J.D. Vance lets the Europeans have it on AI; River Page on the excesses of the anti-DEI backlash. And much more.
But first: Salman Rushdie takes the stand.
