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Where Democracy Still Works
In taverns, classrooms, libraries, and flood-stricken towns, neighbors are quietly practicing the everyday cooperation that keeps the American…
Colleen Shogan
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no…
Leor Sapir
Introducing: ‘Tough Love with Abigail Shrier’
‘The Free Press’ has an advice column! And Nellie Bowles has asked the first question.
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Coleman Hughes: How Nick Fuentes Does It
He has slipped into the mainstream by presenting one version of himself to popular podcast hosts and another to his base.
Coleman Hughes
A Man Should Know: How to Say Thank You
Most of us agree it’s important to express gratitude. But how we do so is just as important.
Elliot Ackerman
What We’re Grateful For
We asked our staff and contributors to share what they're grateful for. Here’s what they had to say.
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Niall Ferguson: The Beginning of the End of the Ukraine-Russia War
Trump’s latest peacemaking initiative has a better chance of success than the skeptics realize. Both Ukraine and Russia now need a respite from war.
Niall Ferguson
Jonathan Haidt: The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation
I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling—and all too familiar.
Jonathan Haidt
We Can’t Stop Conversion Therapy. But We Have to Try.
The Supreme Court is faced with a referendum on this horrific practice. I spoke to survivors to understand what’s at stake.
River Page
AI Is No Way to Revive the Dead
A controversial new company promises to let us speak to dead loved ones. It cheapens our relationships with the living.
Peter Savodnik
In ‘Wicked,’ There’s a Very Thin Elephant in the Room
Ariana Grande looks as fragile on-screen as a porcelain doll. If my daughter sees it, will this be the body she’ll feel she has to grow into?
Kara Kennedy
Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career.
‘The most hurtful thing,’ said the former Broadway star, ‘was that people found out this one thing about me—and nothing else in my character or my work…
Zac Bissonnette
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