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Tough Love: I Want Kids. My Boyfriend Says He’s Not Ready.
‘He offered to pay for me to freeze my eggs, which we are doing this month,’ writes a female reader. But should she search for a man who’s on her…
Abigail Shrier
The Sea Geeks Are Ready for World War III
An Indian-born NASA-trained engineer who’s building flying boats for the Navy. An Irish guy who’s making underwater drones. Meet the ocean-trepreneurs…
Suzy Weiss
DEBATE: Do We Need God?
Religion has faded across the West, but the hunger for meaning hasn’t. Steven Pinker and Ross Douthat debate whether a secular society can sustain…
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Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
For decades, scientists were above reproach. Not any more. Joe Nocera investigates the murky world of fraudulent research, and the sleuths exposing…
Joe Nocera
What Iranians Really Think About the War
‘The bombing is heavy,’ said one of my Iranian friends. ‘And it’s frightening. But we have been frightened and terrorized for almost 50 years.’
David Patrikarakos
The World the Fatwa Made
The Islamic Republic’s most dangerous weapon isn’t missiles. It is a few sentences. They will hang over us—even if the regime falls.
Jonathan Rosen
Tough Love: Why Does My Husband Ask Me What to Feed the Kids?
A working mom of three wants to know: ‘Why am I still responsible for dinner planning on nights when I’m not even home?’ Our advice columnist weighs in.
Abigail Shrier
Niall Ferguson: Could This Be the Start of World War III?
The U.S.-Israeli onslaught on Iran may look to future historians like a staging post to a global conflagration.
Niall Ferguson
How We’re Covering the War. Plus: Our Newest Columnist and Podcast
Marine veteran Aaron MacLean is joining The Free Press—and he’s livestreaming on the Iran War at noon ET today.
The Editors
Joe Gebbia Is Making the Government Beautiful Again
The Airbnb co-founder came to D.C. to serve the second Trump administration. Unlike Elon Musk, he remains—as the Chief Design Officer of the United…
Suzy Weiss
This Isn’t Israel’s War. It’s America’s.
The U.S. went to war in Iran because Iran made itself a Chinese weapon.
Haviv Rettig Gur
The Iran Strikes—and the War to Come
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Michael Doran, Roya Hakakian, and others on the death of Khamenei and what’s next.
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