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Be It Resolved!

A Big Year for Big Lies. Plus. . .

What to Expect in 2025: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, John McWhorter, Nellie Bowles, Leandra Medine, and more

Liberals Warned Me About MAGA’s Racism. I Didn’t Believe Them—Until Now.

The Photos That Exposed Biden’s Lies

Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?

The Strange Grief of Losing a Dog

How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools

The Unluckiness of Jimmy Carter

Civil War in MAGA World. Plus…

The MAGA Civil War Over H-1B Visas

A MAGA Attack on a Trump Nominee—and the Problem with the Woke Right

America Should Not Become a Nation of Tiger Moms

No, Illegal Immigrants Are Not Causing the Housing Crisis

In Defense of the Great American Sleepover

Things Worth Remembering: Before War There Is Peace

A Holy Night in Bethlehem

Here’s to the First Million Free Pressers—And the Next

How Intellectuals Found God

Make Villains Evil Again

The Canadians Who Say: ‘Trump, Take My Country—Please!’

TGIF: Welcome to America, Greenland

The Miracle of the Light

Best of The Free Press: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind

A Merry Little Chrismukkah

Why These Christmas Songs Could Only Be Written in America

Best of The Free Press: Stories That Stirred My Soul

Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World

Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World

Best of The Free Press: Don’t Lie

Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs

I Took Religion Out of Christmas. I Regret It.

My Conversations with Luigi Mangione

How to Give a Real Gift

Best of The Free Press: We’re All Gonna Make It

Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Christmas Message to America

The Absurd Genius of Netflix Christmas Films

What We Learned This Year

WATCH: A Look Inside Assad’s Mass Grave Sites

TGIF: The Lame Duck

The Nazi of Damascus

Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI’s Future

Democrats Still Aren’t Listening. Texan Sheriffs vs. Mexican Cartels. Plus. . .

Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future

Ben Kawaller Asks New Yorkers: Is Luigi Mangione a Hero or a Villain?

The Sugar Plum Sisters

Why Is Trump Suing the Media?

A ‘Loco Gringo’ Takes On the Mexican Cartels

Voters Sent Democrats a Clear Message. They Don’t Want to Hear It.

Do You Have Aura—or Are You Mid? A Gen-Z Slang Dictionary.

A Mom Asked for Public School Board Records. They Charged Her $33 Million.

The Price of Pursuing the Truth About Transgender Medicine. Plus. . .

WATCH: Steve Bannon Talks Luigi Mangione, Racial Representation, and America’s Seething Anger

Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem

Abigail Shrier Was Vilified. Now She’s Been Vindicated.

Will America Abandon the Kurds—Again?

The Deep Roots of Irish Antisemitism

The Free Press, Tailored to You

Christmas in the Gulag. Trudeau in Trouble. How the Drone Theories Stack Up. Plus. . .

They Tortured Him for Years. Now They Rule Syria.

Is Justin Trudeau’s Government on the Brink of Collapse?

Mass Hysteria? Iran? China? The U.S. Military? How the Leading Drone Theories Stack Up.

Detained Americans Face Another Christmas in the Gulag

Coleman Hughes: My Mom—and the Case for Assisted Death

‘Polio Ravaged My Family.’ Political Violence Is Back. Plus. . .

Caitlin Clark’s Conundrum

Taking to the Streets with Georgia’s Pro-Western Protesters

Polio Ravaged My Family. Forget Its Horror at Your Peril.

Political Violence Happens Because We Let It

Things Worth Remembering: The Empathy of J.K. Rowling

The Year of McDonald’s

The Essential Free Press Gift Guide

Inside Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse.’ Plus. . .

Syria’s Christians: ‘We Have No Reason to Trust Al-Jolani’

WATCH: Inside Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’

TGIF: It All Comes Out

Is a Foreign Adversary Flying Drones over New Jersey?

Niall Ferguson: The Vibe Shift Goes Global

Community Guidelines

Meet Kemi Badenoch, New Tory Leader and Would-Be Thatcher. Plus. . .

Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?

What Does Sleeping with 100 Men in One Day Do to the Soul?

Kemi Badenoch’s Fight for the UK—and the West

The Not-So-Marvelous Mrs. Merkel

Kemi Badenoch: How Liberalism Got Hacked

The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada

The Curious Case of Luigi Mangione

The Curious Case of Luigi Mangione. Plus...

How to Fix the NIH

Why Does Pete Hegseth Keep Talking About ‘Warfighters’?

Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump

Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg. Plus. . .

Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump

Assad’s Fall Has Humiliated Washington

Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg

Why I Left Norway

My School Experimented with ‘Education Equity.’ It Failed.

The Free Press Book Club

Ukrainians Are Sick of the War. But We’re Not Allowed to Say It.

Careers

After Assad

Preemptive Pardons Are a Terrible Idea

Simon Sebag Montefiore: After Assad

The Fall of Assad and What Comes Next in Syria

Letters to the Editor: ‘I’ve Watched Someone I Love Die’

Things Worth Remembering: David Foster Wallace on Infinite Things

H.R. McMaster: My Travels with Trump

Live Updates: Jury Is Deadlocked in Daniel Penny Trial

TGIF: Pardon Me?

A CEO Was Shot Dead. These People Cheered.

Niall Ferguson: The Rot In Britain—and the Remedy

Is WWIII Already Underway? Is Hegseth Toast? Plus. . .

What We Can Learn from the Ancient Stoics

Is World War III Already Here?

The Russian Draft Dodgers Who Fled to Paradise

How Young Canadians Lost Faith in Justin Trudeau

The Free Press Live: December 4th, 2024

He Fought for Freedom. Then He Chose Prison.

Gender-Care Whistleblowers Go to Court. Plus. . .

Will Kash Patel Fix the FBI—or Break It?

The Biden Administration’s Prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim

Why I Hope the Supreme Court Upholds the Ban on Child Transition

There’s Nothing More Corrupting Than Flying Private

How to ‘Make Your Campus Palestinian’

It’s Time for the Government to Abolish ‘Race’

Biden’s Hunter Hypocrisy, What’s Happening in Syria, and More

From Aleppo to Tehran: A Middle East on Edge

The Real Hunter Biden Scandal

My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit.

The ‘Wild, Wild West’ of the American Egg Donor Industry

Poetic Justice for Jay Bhattacharya. Plus. . .

Poetic Justice for Jay Bhattacharya

‘No Wonder He’s Smiling. He’s Gotten Away with It So Many Times.’

The Tulsi Gabbard Smears Are Unfounded, Unfair, and Unhelpful

Last Call to Save 25% on Your Subscription

On Mary and the Mob

The Other American Border Towns

Love, Death and Gratitude: Seven Stories

The Rise of the Theater Kids

TGIF: Thankful Edition

What We’re Grateful For

The Making of America’s Most Famous Cheerleaders

A Note from Bari—and Our Big Thanksgiving Deal

Should a Government Help People Die?

Jews Are Being Told to Hide in Berlin. Again.

Peggy Noonan on How to Save America

How a French Whale Made $85 Million off Trump’s Win

How to Save America with Peggy Noonan

The Case Against RFK Jr.

WATCH: What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely

Rep. Seth Moulton: Democrats Are Wearing an ‘Ideological Straitjacket’

Things Worth Remembering: ‘We Shall Win the Tomorrows Before Us’

On Killing Turkeys

Bari Weiss: The Old World Is Not Coming Back

Why Asian Americans Are Moving Right

TGIF: The Ten-Pound Brain Administration

A Free Press Conversation with Natan Sharansky

Her Son Went for a Walk. She Was Charged with ‘Reckless Conduct.’ Plus. . .

Where Do Democrats Go from Here?

If Israel Attacks Iran Again, Will Trump Help?

The Great American Acid Trip

A Boy Went for a Walk. His Mom Was Charged with ‘Reckless Conduct.’

Why Is the National Book Award Going to a Publisher of Antisemitic Books?

WATCH The Interrogation of Daniel Penny

How to Fix Immigration. Plus. . .

Yale Students: We’re Jealous of Our Conservative Peers

Immigration Is a Mess. Here’s How to Fix It.

The Guardian’s Retreat from the Battlefield of Ideas

Martin Gurri: Our Countercultural Revolution

Can RFK Jr. Make America Healthy Again?

Where Will Trump 2.0 Take the GOP?

A Legal Showdown Over Press Freedom

A Simple Litmus Test for RFK Jr.’s Ideas

Letters to the Editor: Should We Ignore Conspiracy Theories?

Gen Xers for Trump. Plus. . .

Is Matt Gaetz’s Nomination Dead on Arrival?

The Case of Justine Bateman—And Why Gen X Broke for Trump

The First Million Free Pressers

Things Worth Remembering: The Last Words of Alexei Navalny

The History Lesson Democrats Can’t Afford to Forget

The Women with AI Boyfriends. Plus . . .

Stop Saying Dating Is Terrible

Meet the Women with AI Boyfriends

Trump, RFK, and the Autism Dilemma

TGIF: Department of Eat My Shorts

Peter Thiel and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites

Rubio, Gabbard, and Gaetz. . . Oh My!

Rubio, Gabbard, and Gaetz. . . Oh My!

Peter Thiel on Trump, Elon, and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites

Trump’s New Border Czar Plans to Deport 11 Million Illegal Aliens. Is That Even Possible?

What Made Ted Olson Great

The One Video that Explains Why Harris Lost

Should You Even Have Kids?

The Post-Election Sex Strike. Plus. . .

Qatar Denies It Is Expelling Hamas Officials

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Donald Trump

The Missing Boy Who Captured America’s Heart

Ladies, Stop Sex Striking for Kamala

The Latino Democrats Who Flipped for Trump: A Report from the Border

Meet the People of Trump World 2.0

Resistance or Opposition: Which Route Should the Democrats Take?

Meet Our New MAGA Overlords. Plus. . .

Meet the People of Trump World 2.0

Could a Trump Presidency Cost Columbia University $3.5 Billion?

The Five Things President Trump Should Do on Day One

Bari Weiss meets Palestinians | FP in Israel

Visiting Kibbutz Kfar Aza | FP in Israel

Massacre at a Music Festival: Supernova Survivors | FP in Israel

Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

Chapter 6: Natalie and Noah

Chapter 5: The Tweets

Chapter 4: TERF Wars

Chapter 3: A New Pyre

Chapter 2: Burn The Witch

Chapter 1: Plotted In Darkness

Ep 8: Should You Have Kids?

Ep 7: How Important is Marriage?

Ep 6: Are Smartphones Stealing Childhood?

Ep 5: Are Boys Being Left Behind?

Ep 4: Are We Overmedicating Kids?

Ep 3: Are We Feeding Kids the Wrong Foods?

Ep 2: Have We Forgotten How to Discipline?

Ep 1: Are We Over-Parenting Our Kids?

Americans Just Said No to Drugs

Mathias Döpfner: Make Germany More Jewish Again

Inside the Battle over Trump’s Foreign Policy

Inside the Battle over Trump’s Foreign Policy

Who Is the New MAGA Coalition?

Things Worth Remembering: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the ‘Strange Death’ of Europe

I Raised $50 Million for the Democrats. This Week, I Voted for Trump.

Peggy Noonan: On Loving America

Last Night’s Pogrom in Amsterdam

Michael Shellenberger: Californians Finally Get Serious on Crime

TGIF: Our Campaign Was Perfect

The Democratic Coalition Has Shattered. Here’s How to Rebuild It.

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Election 2024

Democrats Picked the Wrong Women’s Rights Issue. Plus. . .

Trump’s Podcast Offensive Worked

Democrats Picked the Wrong Women’s Rights Issue

No, the Problem Isn’t the Voters

How Did Trump Pull Off a Red Landslide?

Why Trump Won

With Trump’s Victory, Schools Offer ‘Post-Election Wellness Spaces’

Marianne Williamson: The Democratic Elite Should Resign

Voters in America’s Swingiest County: ‘I’m Crying, I’m So Happy’

The Democrats’ Identity Crisis

Donald Trump Broke the GOP—And Put It Back Together

It’s Not Because She’s a Woman

Overheard at The Free Press’s Election Party

Niall Ferguson: The Resurrection of Donald J. Trump

Free Press Readers Saw This Coming

Trump Wins. And Reality Bites.

‘We Blew It, Joe!’

How Trump Won

Repeat After Us: This Is Not the Last Election

Matti Friedman: As America Votes, Israel’s Crisis Deepens

Election Night with The Free Press!

Election Day 2024. Plus . . .

A Message from Bari on Election Day

Closing Arguments

Who Are the Politically Homeless Voting For?

Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students

Sam Harris: Vote Kamala Harris

Ben Shapiro: Vote Donald Trump

I’ve Voted in Rigged Elections. Now I Get to Vote in an American One.

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages Season Finale: A World Without the Terror Group

Seven Objects—And What They Say About the Election. Plus. . .

Seven Objects—And What They Say About the Election

Law Student Faces Expulsion for ‘Aggressive Pointing’

Swing State Debates Series Finale: Is the American Dream Still Alive?

The Art of the Bullshitter

Things Worth Remembering: Whoever Loses, They Should Lose Like Nixon

Whatever Happens, Love Thy Neighbor

Trump and the Art of the Bullshitter

Douglas Murray: What the British Government Wouldn’t Say

TGIF: We’re All Garbage

The AI Chatbots Are Rooting for Kamala

Joe Biden’s Deplorable Moment

The Free Press Live: October 31, 2024

Joe Biden’s Deplorable Moment. Plus. . .

Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special!

Abigail Shrier: The Kindergarten Intifada

New York’s Prop 1 Is a Trojan Horse

The Smearing of Gay Republicans

The Abandoned Americans

The Free Press Votes

The Free Press Live: October 30, 2024

Can Kamala Close? Is Political Betting Bad? Is Crime Up or Down? Plus. . .

School Choice Is Usually a Conservative Issue. Not in Kentucky.

Is Election Betting Bad for Democracy?

Trump Says Crime Is Up. Harris Says It’s Down. Who’s Right?

Swing State Debates Episode Five: The Youth Vote in Michigan

Trump or Harris? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate. Plus. . .

Trump or Kamala? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate.

Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate.

Diets Are Bad. Ignoring Childhood Obesity Is Even Worse.

How the Democrats Rigged the Vote in Puerto Rico

Is There Really a Plot to Use Migrants to Turn America Blue?

Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob. How Progressives Blew It. And More.

The Curious Case of Ariane Tabatabai

How Progressives Blew It

Sally Rooney’s Literary Mob

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: The Lebanese Women Who Took to the Streets

Gad Saad Survived War in Lebanon. He’s Warning About One in the West

Things Worth Remembering: T.S. Eliot Put His World Back Together Again

Should the U.S. Still Police the World? A Live Debate.

Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Iran Strike—and America’s Strategic Weakness

A Voyage to a Failed American Kingdom

Magazine That Rejected ‘Israel’ Ad Promoted ‘Antisemitic’ Book

The Free Press Live: October 25, 2024

TGIF: The McDonald’s Election

Martin Gurri: Cuba Enters the Dark Ages

She Was Arrested for Praying in Her Head

Trump’s Revenge Fantasies and Kamala’s Incoherence

The Parasitic Ideas Threatening the West

Donald Trump’s Revenge Fantasies

The World According to Kamala Harris

Ad for Israel Book Canceled Because ‘Customers Might Complain’

How BLM Blew $90 Million. Plus. . .

BLM Collected Over $90 Million in Donations. Where Did It Go?

Why Is ‘The New York Times’ Not Disclosing a Source’s Ties to Hamas?

Swing State Debates Episode Four: The Jewish Vote in Pennsylvania

To the Normies, the Spoils!

To the Normies, the Spoils! Plus. . .

How Hezbollah Is Destroying Lebanon

Meet Kamala’s Megadonors

The Trials of Daniel Penny

Daniel Penny and New York’s Vigilantes

The Trials of Daniel Penny

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: The Brave Youth Who Took Hezbollah to Court

Things Worth Remembering: What Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Talk About

The Middle-Class Women Who Are Tripping Balls

The Free Press Live: October 18, 2024

Brianna Wu Says She Didn’t Change. The Progressive Movement Did.

TGIF: Super Heavy Booster

Sinwar’s Death Will Hasten the End of the War

The Debanking of America

‘I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome’

Brianna Wu Says She Didn't Change. The Progressive Movement Did.

‘I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome’

Martin Gurri: I Refused to Vote in the Last Two Elections. Now, I’m Voting for Trump.

The Hundred-Year Holy War

Finally, a Good Trump Movie

The Free Press Live: October 16, 2024

Black Nationalist Gets $20 Million to Promote ‘Segregation’ in Public Schools

The White Women Dumping Trump for Harris. Plus. . .

U.S. and Canada Label Terror Fundraiser a ‘Sham Charity’

The White Women Who Regret Voting for Trump

In Defense of the Hot Rabbi

Our Next Book Club: Israel, October 7, and the Crisis of Civilization

How Hamas Infiltrated Europe

Fight Club! Is Lina Khan a Heroine or a Bully?

The Miracle of the Flying Skyscraper

The Democrats Voting for Trump

We Are in Need of Renaissance People

The Fall of the Century

Tim Urban: Why I Brought My Toddler to Watch SpaceX’s Flying Skyscraper

Swing State Debates Episode Three: Talking Race and Racism in. . . Wisconsin

Inside America’s Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise: Sex Trafficking

Election 2024: Battle of the Sexes

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Secret Tour of ‘Hezbollahland’

Election 2024: Boys vs. Girls

Things Worth Remembering: When Bob Dylan Won the Nobel

‘60 Minutes’: Release the Unedited Kamala Harris Transcript

Life’s Short. So Stop Trying to Perfect It.

The Hundred Year Holy War

A Free Press Live Debate on Foreign Policy

TGIF: Yes, They Can Control the Weather

Worst. Spy. Ever. Plus. . .

“There Is No Peace Here”: Reporting on War with Trey Yingst

Don’t Feel Sorry for the Menendez Brothers

The Spy Who Lied to Us

Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is?

The Real Resistance to Trump Is in the Scottish Countryside

Report: DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation

The Fallout at CBS Continues

The Fallout at CBS Continues

Will the Supreme Court Save Richard Glossip?

Will Ferrell’s Trans Documentary Is Surprisingly Moving

My Relatives Live in the Path of Hurricane Milton. They Refuse to Evacuate.

Alabama Is a Pro-Life State. So Why Is It So Hard to Give Birth There?

The Free Press Live: October 8, 2024

The Free Press Live: October 2, 2024

Elon to the Rescue. Plus. . .

Swing State Debates Episode Two: Talking Immigration in Arizona

Elon Succeeded Where FEMA Failed

The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble

A Year of Revelations

How Is CBS Marking October 7? By Admonishing Tony Dokoupil

Bearing Jewish Children After October 7

Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations

Bari Weiss: A Year of Revelations

Niall Ferguson: My Journey From a Jerusalem of Ghosts to the Living Jerusalem

October 7: A Year of Free Press Stories

A Year Ago Today, Terrorists Stole My Son

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: Lebanese Man Taught to Hate Israel Becomes an Advocate for Peace

Can Israel Win Back What October 7 Took?

Things Worth Remembering: Jonathan Sacks on the Improbability of Israel

The World Is in Love with America

Emily Oster Talks About Our New Parenting Podcast

Will Israel Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites?

TGIF: Justice for Bear 402

Douglas Murray: A Time of War

Make Drones, Not Bombs. Plus. . .

In Praise of the Dockworkers Shutting Down Our Ports

The U.S. Isn’t Ready for a Modern War

Anti-Israel Professor’s Firing Sets ‘Very Dangerous Precedent’

Douglas Murray: A Time of War

The Fantasy World of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Watch: The Free Press Live!

Let Israel Win

Vance Wins a Weirdly Normal VP Debate

Let Israel Win the War Iran Started

Hurricane Helene Has Exposed an Insane Liberal Myth

WATCH a New Free Press Series: Swing State Debates

Matt Taibbi and Megyn Kelly on Speaking Freely

Megyn Kelly on Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Life After Mainstream Media

Megyn Kelly on Life After Mainstream Media

Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors

‘I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning.’ Plus. . .

I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning.

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Drug Mule Tells His Story

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: Why the West Is Worth Defending

Porn Professor Canned by University of Wisconsin

The Killing of Nasrallah—and the Virtue of Escalation

Things Worth Remembering: Mr. Biden, This Is How You Defend Israel

In Defense of Megalomania. Plus...

In Defense of Megalomania

For Women, Aging Is Like a Horror Film

Why Are Iran’s Thugs Free to Walk the Streets of New York?

TGIF: Kink Shaming

The Moral Inversion of Rashida Tlaib—and the Smearing of Dana Nessel

How Republics Unravel: From Rome to. . . America?

Journalists Against Journalism. Plus. . .

How Republics Unravel: From Rome to . . . America?

The Campaign to Win Over the ‘Latino Belt’

Penn Professor Amy Wax Punished for ‘Inconvenient Facts’

Battleground Michigan: A Tale of Two Communities Divided by War

Trump Should Be Running Away with the Election. Why Isn’t He? Plus. . .

Trump Should Be Running Away With the Election. Why Isn’t He?

Fight Club: Should the United Nations Be Abolished?

Niall Ferguson: Germany, Rearm!

An ‘Innocent’ Man Is Scheduled to Die Today. Republicans Want to Save Him.

University Cancels Panel Because Author Is a ‘Zionist.’ Plus. . .

Why Senator Rand Paul Hasn’t Endorsed Trump

University Cancels Panel Because Author Is a ‘Zionist’

The Myth of Degrowth

How Harvard Divinity Teaches Hate

From Our Kitchen Table to a Real Newsroom

Assaulted and Abducted by Hezbollah. Plus. . .

The Subversive Genius of Melania Trump

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Former Sex Slave Tells Her Story

Things Worth Remembering: ‘A Time for Choosing’

‘I’m Face Blind. Here’s What It’s Like.’ Plus…

I’m Face Blind. Here’s What It’s Like.

I’m a Super-Recognizer. Here’s What It’s Like.

Introducing the First Class of Free Press Fellows

TGIF: No One Ate Miss Sassy

The Free Press Live: September 12, 2024

Learning from Oddballs

My French Teacher Was Beloved for 25 Years. Then She Was Asked About Hijabs.

The Free Press Live: September 19, 2024

Inside America’s Education Revolution. Plus. . .

Hezbollah’s Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode. Now What?

Hezbollah's Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode. Now What?

Don’t Blame Political Violence on Political Rhetoric

The Return of the One-Room Schoolhouse

I Read the Would-be Trump Assassin’s Book So You Don’t Have To

Letter to the Editor: The Limits of Free Speech

Inside America’s First-Ever Classical Jewish School

The Most Important Job in the World

Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers. Plus. . .

Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers

How Wikipedia Became a Propaganda Site

The People Who Rage Against the Machine

‘Why Did Journalists Like Me Take Ryan Routh Seriously?’ Plus. . .

Is The American Dream Alive and Well? A Live Debate.

Why Did Journalists Like Me Take Ryan Routh Seriously?

We Are Still ‘We the People’

Martin Gurri: Mistaking Politics for Religion

WATCH: Matt Walsh Talks DEI, Division, and Robin DiAngelo

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages: A Special Series Presented by The Free Press

‘I Met Trump’s Would-Be Assassin.’

‘I Met Trump’s Would-Be Assassin.’ Plus. . .

Are U.S. Airlines Effectively Boycotting Israel?

To the Woman Who Trashed Me on Twitter

Things Worth Remembering: The Imperfection of America

The Lost Art of Waiting

WATCH: Is The American Dream Alive and Well? A Free Press Debate.

Our Next Live Debate: Should the U.S. Still Police the World?

TGIF: Concepts of a Plan

The Free Press Live: September 5, 2024

Is This Mysterious Text the Most Ancient Hebrew Book Ever Discovered?

The Front Page: ‘I Was Forced to Marry. In Iraq, Nine-Year-Old Girls Could Share My Fate.’ Plus. . .

I Was Forced to Marry. In Iraq, Nine-Year-Old Girls Could Share My Fate.

Can a Woman Be a Drag Queen?

Bill Barr: Mob Rule and Moral Bankruptcy at Columbia

What September 11 Revealed

Cat-Eating, Rally Sizes, and Post-Birth Abortion: An American Debate

The Front Page: Fight Night

Trump Took the Bait. Harris Kept Her Cool.

Why Are Grocery Bills So High?

Matti Friedman: When We Started to Lie

The Front Page: Is the American Dream Dead for Gen Z? Plus. . .

World War II and the Rise of Anti-History

Why Buying a Home Seems Impossible for Gen Z

We Are All ‘Walz’s for Trump’

Did Tim Walz ‘Let Minneapolis Burn’?

The Front Page: America’s Weakness Is a Provocation

H.R. McMaster: America’s Weakness Is a Provocation

‘Reagan’ Is a Terrible Movie. But Not Because It’s Conservative.

Things Worth Remembering: Nothing Is Lost Forever

When Students Become Terrorists

When Students Become Terrorists

TGIF: Foreign Interference

The Free Press Live: August 29, 2024

Niall Ferguson: The Return of Anti-History

Bari Weiss: The War on Our History

The Front Page: Tucker Carlson and the War Against History

The Republicans Voting for Kamala

Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About World War II

Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right

The Front Page: How Close Is Iran to the Bomb?

Party in the U-S-A

How Close Is Iran to the Bomb?

A Letter to My Israeli Neighbors

A Revolution Begins in Austin, Texas

The Front Page: The Global War Against Free Speech

Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex

The Real Meaning of Pavel Durov’s Arrest

Abigail Shrier: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Our Government Censors

Twelve Months to Fall Back in Love with America

Dark Tunnels and Moral Beacons

Among the Mourners of Zion and Jerusalem

Things Worth Remembering: Conversation Is an Art

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Your Place in the World

The Free Press Live: August 22, 2024

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Perfectionism Can Destroy You

What School Didn’t Teach Us: How to Succeed

How Whole Foods Revolutionized American Eating Habits

What School Didn’t Teach Us: Fear Is Good for You

What School Didn’t Teach Us: You Need to Lose Control

Debate: How Do We Fix American Education?

What School Didn’t Teach Us: How It Feels to Work Hard

The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils

How ‘Tranny’ Became a Slur

The Free Press Live: August 21, 2024

TGIF: We Are Not Going Back to What Has Been

From the DNC: Meet the Kamala Democrats

The Many Wonders of Price Gouging

The Free Press Live: August 15, 2024

The Front Page: How Long Can Harris Avoid the Press? Plus. . .

The Democrats Are Having a Convention About Nothing

No, the Harris-Walz Camo Cap Is Not for Rednecks

The Most Powerful Moment of the DNC

A Reality Check for Woke Jews

How Long Can Kamala Harris Avoid the Press?

The Front Page: Niall Ferguson on the ‘Barbenheimer’ Election. Plus. . .

No, Mr. President, the Protesters Don’t Have a Point

Two Obamas. Two Different Visions of America.

Niall Ferguson: The ‘Barbenheimer’ Election

Nate Silver on the Art of Risking Everything

The Front Page: The President and the Protesters at the DNC

A Vanishing Biden Reappears at the DNC

X’s Grok Is the Unwoke Solution to Google’s Gemini

‘Uncommitted’ Democrats Want to End Support for Israel. How Far Can They Push at This Week’s DNC?

The Front Page: John Fetterman Has No Regrets. Plus. . .

John Fetterman Has No Regrets

Fight Club: Who’s Winning, Harris or Trump?

Things Worth Remembering: What Kamala Could Learn from FDR

Join Suzy Weiss for Our Next Book Club in New York

A Terrorist Plot Canceled the Show. But We Swifties Found Each Other on Cornelia Street.

TGIF: The RayGun Goes Off

Michael Oren: Should Israel Strike First?

The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out

Now We Know: Hunter Biden Was Lobbying for Foreign Companies

Columbia President Minouche Shafik Resigns

Truth and Lies on the Campaign Trail

The Front Page: Truth and Lies on the Campaign Trail. Plus. . .

The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out

Is Tim Walz Really Guilty of ‘Stolen Valor’?

The J.D. Vance Couch Thing Was Funny, Until the Harris Campaign Co-Opted It

The 2024 Election Is a Marvel Universe

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Trailer: The Free Press in Israel

The Backlash in Deep-Blue America

In a Deep-Blue City, Will Locals Get Tough on Crime?

The Art World’s Enfant Terrible Runs for Senate

Things Worth Remembering: The Men Who Were Worthy of Athens

Introducing a New Saturday Series: The Prophets

TGIF: Bad Things Happened

Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom

Violent Rioters at Berkeley. In Defense of Self-Driving Cars. Richard Lewis, RIP

If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech, It Will Expel Its Rioters

We Are All Bad Drivers

Jack Sweeney: Troll? Stalker? Or Free Speech Hero?

‘If I Die, They’re Dying with Me’

He Hunted al-Qaeda. Now He Hunts Neo-Nazis

How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools

Why the Kids Aren't Alright

Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It.

Things Worth Remembering: ‘I Built the Railroads Under Someone Else’s Whip’

Weekend Listening: Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine?

Can a Jew Still Love Kanye?

Who Is Reading Even for Anymore?

Are ‘Islamists in Charge of Britain’?

Kanye the Vulture

TGIF: Every Sperm Is Sacred

We’re Not Curing Cancer Here, Guys

Children of the Revolution

Two Years Later: Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine? A Debate.

Kids Get Schooled on Radical Politics

Lessons in Excellence from the Tuskegee Airmen

The Normies Will Save the World

Could October 7 Bring Down the Squad?

Alexei Navalny: ‘The People Who Look the Other Way’

Alexei Navalny Died for the Truth. Tucker Carlson Fell for the Lie.

The Three Adults Who Abandoned Me—And Taught Me Life’s Most Important Lesson

Rob Henderson: The Three Adults Who Abandoned Me

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Exclusive: Navalny’s Letters from the Gulag

Weekend Listening: From McDonalds Drive-Through to Star Harvard Professor

Things Worth Remembering: Winston Churchill’s Gracious Farewell

The First Post-Woke Designer

Alexei Navalny Lived and Died in Truth

The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome

Is Elena Velez the First ‘Post-Woke’ Designer?

TGIF: Mother Russia, Father Time

In Defense of Biden and Trump

‘I Was Fired After Blowing the Whistle’

Special Episode! Suzy Weiss on Dating While Problematic

Why Is The American Right Pandering to Putin?

Free Press Lonely Hearts Club

Why Is the American Right Pandering to Putin?

Gen Z’s Sexual Apocalypse. The Case for Marriage. And: Is It Time to Ditch the Apps?

Why You Should Get Married

When It Comes to Sex, My Generation Is Screwed

Economist Roland Fryer on Adversity, Race, and Refusing to Conform

WATCH: Douglas Murray Meets the Son of Hamas

Who Should Run Gaza After the War?

Coleman Hughes on the New Racism

Coleman Hughes on the New Racism

WATCH: This Muslim Israeli Woman Is the Hope of the Middle East

A Second Year with Douglas Murray

The Greatest (Ever?) Show on Turf

TGIF: Say It Ain’t Joe

Andrew Sullivan on What He Got Wrong About Trump

The DEI Rollback Hasn’t Made It to Nebraska

Should Parents Pay for the Crimes of Their Children?

He Murdered His Classmates. Should His Mother Go to Jail?

Medical Schools Should ‘Combat Racism.’ But Not Like This.

Stumbling Toward the White House

Recovering Addicts Save an Opioid Town

Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.

The Assassin’s Veto

Britain Can’t Protect Its Own Government Ministers from Islamists

I Was Told to Approve All Teen Gender Transitions. I Refused.

Things Worth Remembering: Breaking Bread with the Dead

Weekend Listening: The Real Team America

Ladies’ Night at the Grammys

The Grammys Don’t Deserve Joni Mitchell

TGIF: Taylor vs. Trump

The Real Team America

Failing Upward at the State Department

Tracey Jacobson Abandoned Our Afghan Allies. Now She’s Getting a Promotion.

Road Warriors: The New Proletariat

WATCH: American Miseducation. A New Documentary from The Free Press

Can This Death Row Inmate Bring Down the Death Penalty Itself?

The UN’s Terrorism Teachers

The UN’s Terrorism Teachers

Matti Friedman: What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?

Things Worth Remembering: The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain

Weekend Listening: The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism

The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate

TGIF: Soldiers of the Resistance

‘Antisemitism Is Again Becoming a Terrible Scourge’

NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True’

NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True’

American Troops Know: Iran Is Already at War with Us

The Canadian Truckers’ Day in Court

It’s Over, and It’s Trump

Trump. Again. The Question Is Why?

They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants.

Is There Any Way in Hell Nikki Haley Can Stop Trump?

Things Worth Remembering: The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

The Trouble with ‘Murder at the End of the World’

TGIF: TimHouthi Chalamet

What Books Are Really Getting Banned?

The Truth About Banned Books

Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures

Free Press Investigations Get Results

Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard

John Sailer: The DEI Rollback

The Girls I Met in the Tunnels

What Really Happened to George Floyd?

Canada’s Latest Initiative: Fentanyl for Minors

Why the Average Republican Voter Hates the GOP. . .

Where Ron Went Wrong

Trump Wins Bigly in Iowa. Fentanyl for Minors in Canada. And, Is the Golden Age of TV Over?

‘Succession’ and The End of Television’s Golden Age

One Hundred Days of War

The Silence of the Feminists

Andrew Sullivan: How Many Children Is Israel Willing to Kill?

MLK’s Former Speechwriter: ‘We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America’

Things Worth Remembering: The Art of Nostalgia

Weekend Listening: Dean Phillips on His Long-Shot White House Bid

Amanda Knox: Watching Gypsy Rose

TGIF: This Means War

What Actually Happened Underneath the Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters?

A New York School Wipes Israel off the Map. Chris Christie’s Hot-Mic Dropout. Intergenerational Fight Club.

NYC Public School Wipes Israel from the Map

Can Dean Phillips Pull Off the Impossible: Defeat Joe Biden?

A Professor Quits MIT. China’s Bullying Goes Global. Haley Surges.

Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT

An Idea for Professors at Elite Schools: Go Teach Republicans

Bad Medicine. The Great Plagiarism War of 2024. And Israel’s October 7 Lesson.

I’m a Doctor. You Shouldn’t Always Trust Us.

The Great Scramble

The Big Schmooze

Biden Makes It All About Trump. Will That Be Enough?

Things Worth Remembering: Making Fun of Marxism

The Free Press Goes to the Movies

Going Pantsless? An Economic Boom? World War III? Our Predictions for 2024

TGIF: Where’s the Veritas?

What to Expect in 2024: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Peter Attia, John McWhorter and More

Hamas Kidnapped My Father for Refusing to Be Their Puppet

Should Chris Christie Drop Out?

How Texas A&M’s Deal with Qatar ‘Puts American Security at Risk’

Bill Ackman: How to Fix Harvard

Claudine Gay, We Hardly Knew Ye…

Martin Gurri: Don’t Worry About Donald Trump. Worry About Yourself.

Bill Barr: I Oppose Trump—and Any Efforts to Ban Him From the Ballot

How to Think for Yourself in 2024

Rob Henderson: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

Ryan Holiday: How to Save Your Family from the Algorithm

Jamie Reed: The Courage to Admit You’re Wrong