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The Case for Dating Abundance
Incels hate women, ‘heterofatalists’ hate men. What if everyone chilled out?
Suzy Weiss
Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s Winning One War While It Loses Another
Hamas’s fundamental plan for survival is Gaza’s humanitarian suffering. It’s the catalyst for international pressure on Israel. And it’s working.
Haviv Rettig Gur
Why Sydney Sweeney’s Body Is Causing a Total Meltdown
For a few short years, ads had to buy in to the fiction that anyone can be beautiful. Now, the vibe shift is here, and it’s hot, blonde, and sprawled…
Kara Kennedy
How to De-Addict Gen Z from Porn
Porn has degraded a generation. Two tech bros have come up with an app to save young men from its ‘pit of shame and self-hatred.’
Sean Fischer
The Paranoid Policy of Affirmative Consent
It’s the norm on American campuses, and the law of the land in Canada. It means sexual assault isn’t about ignoring a no—it’s about failing to get…
Kat Rosenfield
Suzy Weiss: Ozzy Osbourne Was America’s Dad
Plus: New York Times readers are annoyed with a guy for talking to his MAGA relative. A Netflix original so bad people are saying AI wrote the dialogue…
Suzy Weiss
On Pilgrimage with 20,000 Young Catholics
‘Tradition is the only safe future we have,’ says a 24-year-old, on the way to Chartres Cathedral. ‘What are you going to build your life on, if not…
Rod Dreher
Behind the $221 Million Columbia Antisemitism Deal
Hundreds of Jewish faculty, staff, and students, plus two janitors held hostage by protesters, will get payouts: ‘We’ll be watching you.’
Maya Sulkin and Frannie Block
Why the Revolution Never Ends
Marxism didn’t die. It just changed costumes. A historian of communism breaks down how today’s radicals rebranded the ideology for a new generation.
Gary Saul Morson
Why My Generation Is Bad at Partying
An invite app made it easier to throw parties. It also made them worse.
Sascha Seinfeld
Niall Ferguson: Milei’s Man-made Miracle
Can a broken economy be fixed? Argentina’s president proves it can. Politics is another story.
Niall Ferguson
The Coldplay Couple Did Something Bad. The Internet Did Something Worse.
The original function of public shaming was to keep the bonds of community strong. Now, it’s a spectator sport.
Kat Rosenfield
Suzy Weiss: Are You Enterpained?
Plus: The art world’s ‘state of the union’ address. Stay-at-home motherhood gets a rebrand. And more!
Suzy Weiss
Happy Independence Day, NPR
The Senate just voted to cut federal funding for the news organization I worked at for 25 years. It only has itself to blame.
Uri Berliner
The Free Press App Is Here!
You asked. Now it’s here. Everything we publish, in one place that’s fast and easy to use. Download it now.
Bari Weiss
The White Man Who Pretended to Be Black to Get Published
A young poet pretended to be ‘a gender-fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora,’ and wrote intentionally bad poems. He says he got 47 of them published.
River Page
Nobody Has a Personality Anymore
My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. You’re not shy, you’re autistic. You’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD.
Freya India
It’s a Fascist! It’s a Communist! No, It’s Superman!
James Gunn’s blockbuster is America’s favorite Rorschach test. What do you see?
Will Rahn
Suzy Weiss: What Do Rich Dorks Buy?
The dealer of fine arts is auctioning a dinosaur skeleton. Plus: Weddings are obscene now. But Lena Dunham’s new show is great.
Suzy Weiss
The Consulting Crash Is Coming
Bloated, overpaid, and outpaced by AI—big firms confront a future they can’t outsource.
Joe Nocera
Tyler Cowen: Why Won’t Socialism Die?
The simple explanation is that people like free stuff. What’s actually happening is a nationwide case of bad vibes.
Tyler Cowen
The Forgotten American: Can There Be Life After 12 Years in a Chinese Prison?
Mark Swidan spent more than a decade in a windowless box for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s back home in Texas—and living on food stamps.
Peter Savodnik
After Trump Was Shot, He Called Me
Salena Zito was four feet away from the stage when President Trump took a bullet—and has written a new book about the experience. She joins Peter…
Salena Zito
He Was Falsely Accused of ‘Blackface.’ It Derailed His Life.
A California high school student’s life was forever changed when a picture of him wearing an acne mask went viral for all the wrong reasons. Five years…
Frannie Block
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