It’s Thursday, December 18. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Richard Dawkins on P.G. Wodehouse. How Iranian women are defying the regime. Olivia Reingold on how Zohran Mamdani’s win has fractured Jewish families. Plus: Our new history newsletter, Abigail Shrier’s Tough …
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The fight to replace Nancy Pelosi is a clash between “staid progressivism,” represented by state senator Scott Wiener, and “new radicalism,” reports Peter Savodnik. (Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
A quiet revolution in Iran. Richard Dawkins on the funniest writer in the English language. The families at war over Mamdani. And much more.
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