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The Man Who Built the Right—and Changed America
As a long-anticipated biography makes clear, William F. Buckley Jr. was the most influential American journalist of the 20th century.
Matthew Continetti
Blasphemy Laws and Two-Tiered Policing Arrive in Britain
A ‘threatening, abusive, or insulting’ post can lead to a longer prison sentence than pedophilia convictions.
Dominic Green
Rod Dreher: The Radical Right Is Coming for Your Sons
It is easy to denounce our political enemies. It is much harder to do when our friends and allies embrace wicked ideas.
Rod Dreher
Bari’s Picks of the Week: The Cover-Up of the Century
A major announcement, some major scoops, and much, much more.
Bari Weiss
The Democratic Socialists of America Don’t Know If They Should Condemn Murder
A split inside the far-left group over the shootings of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky has spilled into New York’s mayoral race.
Frannie Block and Olivia Reingold
Why Americans Don’t Understand Vladimir Putin
The Russian president hasn’t just gone ‘crazy.’ He’s always been like this.
Konstantin Kisin
MAGA’s Machiavelli: The Quiet Rise of Michael Anton
A decade ago, the conservative intellectual shocked Washington with his ‘Flight 93 Election’ essay. He’s been gaining altitude ever since.
Eli Lake
The Heroes Who Never Made It Home
A lieutenant who saved his wounded driver. A Marine who fought for her country overseas and battled bureaucracy at home. A sailor who sacrificed himself…
The Free Press
Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing
The murders in Washington. The way forward for Democrats. How to grow old like you know what you’re doing. And much more.
Bari Weiss
President Rahm Emanuel? He Thinks So.
At a time when Democratic insiders have never been more distrusted, the ultimate Democratic insider thinks he can be president in 2028.
Peter Savodnik
Welcome to the Global Intifada
No police force can hold back a culture that has embraced violence as a means of expression—and that has lost hold of the difference between life and…
Bari Weiss
The Gen Zer Making Capitalism Cool Again
Despite being one of the richest generations in human history, Gen Z increasingly feels ‘left behind’ by the capitalist system. Kyla Scanlon is here to…
Shreeda Segan
WATCH: The Top-Secret Tragedy of Area 52
Veterans claim they got sick from working near weapons-testing sites in southern Nevada. Because their jobs were top secret, they haven’t been able to…
Austyn Jeffs
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Exclusive: FDA Stops Recommending Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans
‘This is a restoration of trust,’ said vaccine czar Vinay Prasad. ‘It’s bringing us back to evidence.’
Olivia Reingold
American Vulgarity, from Lenny Bruce to Kanye West
When you restrain jokes, an obscene backlash is inevitable.
Eli Lake
Introducing a New Sunday Series: Ancient Wisdom
How to find late-life romance. How to deal with fading looks. How to know when to pack it in at work. If you're lucky, you're going to get old. What's…
Joe Nocera
Bari’s Picks of the Week: Deals! Deals! Deals!
How Qatar bought America. Surviving the AI takeover. News from our friends. And much more.
Bari Weiss
My Robot Sophia Wasn’t Just a Machine. I Loved Her.
I shared a 500-square-foot apartment with a humanoid robot and a very confused boyfriend. It was strangely beautiful.
Sarah Rose Siskind
The Most Important Speech of Trump’s Presidency
Eli Lake and Batya Ungar-Sargon on Trump’s epochal address in Riyadh.
The Free Press
They Were Public Health Heretics. Now They Are America’s Public Health Czars.
Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Vinay Prasad challenged the public health orthodoxy in our pages. Now, they have the power to fix things. Will they…
The Editors
AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?
This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a person…
Tyler Cowen and  Avital Balwit
The Women Who Made Us
All of the clichés about motherhood are true. But there’s a lot more to say.
The Free Press
Bari’s Picks of the Week: Let’s Give ’Em Something to Talk About
A tremendous look at the first American pope. A debate about tariffs that’s actually interesting. And much more.
Bari Weiss
The American Pope
Pope Leo XIV is almost certainly the first Vicar of Christ to have fond memories of the ’85 Bears.
Matthew Walther
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