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What the Bills Mafia Teaches Us About Resilience
Buffalo has suffered decades of heartbreak, but we haven’t lost our love of football—or life.
Carolyn D. Gorman
Boys Like Me Need Protection from Sports Betting
We used to watch football because it was fun. Now it’s just a series of parlays and live bets.
Raphael Shrier
A Declaration of Jokes
From old masters to working comics, Woody Allen, Colin Quinn, and other friends of The Free Press share their favorite jokes.
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How DoorDash Gets You
New York wants to make it more expensive to get food delivered. That’s a good thing.
Sascha Seinfeld
Say His Name: Rupert Pupkin
In the 1980s, one movie marked the moment when American comedy tipped from social observation to shared delusion.
Dominic Green
In California, Decline Is a Choice
Jan Sramek is trying to build an entirely new city—in a state strangled by red tape. Can he succeed in making California build again?
Suzy Weiss
This Week in American History: The First War for Hearts and Minds
At the start of the Revolutionary War, a diplomat and a general believed rebellion could be ended by persuasion rather than punishment. History had…
Jonathan Horn
The Epstein Saga: Rod Dreher, Nellie Bowles, and Robby Soave on the Files and the Fallout. Plus. . .
Coleman Hughes live in Atlanta. Can AI fix our politicians? Can Warsh fix the Fed? Why is Mamdani scrapping New York’s gifted and talented program? And…
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Jeffrey Epstein and Our Pre-Revolutionary Moment
The revelations in the Epstein files—and the furor that surrounds them—have ominous echoes in history.
Rod Dreher
Will We Regret the Release of the Epstein Files?
No one knows what’s true, false, or misleading in the millions of files released. But reputations will still be ruined.
Robby Soave
Nellie Bowles on Tulsi Gabbard, ICE, the Epstein Files, Kanye West, and the ‘Melania’ Movie
The Queen of TGIF sits down with Suzy Weiss, Will Rahn, and Mene Ukueberuwa to talk politics, culture, and more.
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Nellie Bowles: The Journalist and the Epstein
I had the chance to profile one of the darkest, most interesting characters of our moment. Why didn’t I grab it?
Nellie Bowles
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