It’s Thursday, April 9. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Niall Ferguson on Iran’s skewed definition of victory. Frannie Block speaks to former astronauts about a potentially fatal flaw in the spacecraft that’s just made history. Yascha Mounk on the trouble with college …
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a town hall in Lincoln Park, Michigan, on November 11, 2025. (Ryan Sun via AP)
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