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The Front Page: ‘I Was Forced to Marry. In Iraq, Nine-Year-Old Girls Could Share My Fate.’ Plus. . .
Young Iraqi girls wear the hijab for the first time. (Photo by Hussein Faleh / AFP via Getty Images)
Bill Barr on Columbia’s moral bankruptcy. Biden dons a Trump cap. Can women be drag queens? And much more.
By Madeleine Kearns
09.12.24 — The Front Page
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It’s Thursday, September 12, and this is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today’s offering is brought to you by my brilliant colleague Madeleine Kearns, and it includes Bill Barr on the chaos at Columbia, Biden in a MAGA cap, the truth about one of the craziest-sounding claims in Tues…

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Madeleine Kearns
Madeleine Kearns is an associate editor at The Free Press. Previously, she was a staff writer at National Review where she regularly appeared on the magazine’s flagship podcast, The Editors. Her work has also appeared in The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, UnHerd, and a range of other publications. She writes and performs music.
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