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Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Make French Wine Anymore?
Half of French winemakers will retire in the next 10 years. And there are not enough young people willing to replace them.
Josephine de La Bruyère
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Druze Massacre in Southern Syria
‘They slaughtered us. A group came to ethnically cleanse us. They said, ‘We want to see a bloodbath.’
Tanya Lukyanova
10M
Matti Friedman: Is Gaza Starving? Searching for the Truth in an Information War.
When I asked a former senior government official if there is mass hunger among Gazans, he answered me honestly: ‘I don’t know.’
Matti Friedman
Jed Rubenfeld: The Macrons Are Suing Candace Owens. Do They Have a Chance?
France’s first couple must prove ‘actual malice,’ which is, in effect, an immunity shield for crackpots.
Jed Rubenfeld
Reagan’s Secretary of Education Joins Qatar’s Payroll
Qatar isn’t backing down in the face of scrutiny. It’s doubling down—on lobbying and American higher education.
Frannie Block
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
Britain’s War on Speech Comes for the Pub
The UK’s speech police have that most British tradition in their crosshairs: banter.
Dominic Green
What Dead Birds Have to Do with the End of Europe
Throughout Europe, cratering birth rates and an accelerating brain drain are converging into a demographic crisis. You can see it now in the dying…
Josephine de La Bruyère
Is Peace Between Israel and Syria Really Possible?
With new leadership in Damascus, Trump wants a deal between the two countries. That will be a tall order.
Michael Oren
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
Was Iran’s Nuclear Program ‘Obliterated’—or Just Set Back a Few Months?
A leaked preliminary report suggested that U.S. and Israeli strikes had delivered only modest results. Other agencies and experts paint a very different…
Jay Solomon
How British Abortion Advocates Overplayed Their Hand
In the UK, pro-choice feminists have criticized a new law decriminalizing abortion up until birth. They fear it may cause ‘anti-choice backlash.’
Madeleine Kearns
Niall Ferguson: What Comes After Trump’s ‘Surgical Strikes’?
As Kissinger often said, every success in foreign policy is just an admission ticket to the next crisis.
Niall Ferguson
Did Trump Just End a War—or Start One?
The risks of escalation—and mission creep—are real.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Matti Friedman: After the Bombs
American B-2s just changed the Middle East. Now it’s time to return the region to the humans who live here.
Matti Friedman
My Pacifist Grandfather Was Murdered by Iran. Here’s What the World Should Know.
Albert Votaw was based at the U.S. embassy in Beirut when he was killed. Justice has been a long time coming.
Albert Eisenberg
Niall Ferguson and Yoav Gallant: Israel Has Done Most of the Job. Only Trump Can Finish It.
Only one air force has the power to finish off Iran’s last standing nuclear enrichment site, write the noted historian and the former Israeli defense…
Niall Ferguson and Yoav Gallant
Niall Ferguson: America Is in a Late Republic Stage—Like Rome
The historian and Free Press columnist on why America makes a terrible imperial power, how we got ourselves into Cold War II, and why the real culture…
Nathan Gardels
Debate: Should the U.S. Intervene in Iran?
Two former Pentagon officials square off on America’s role in the war.
Dan Caldwell and Simone Ledeen
Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West
A blow for the good guys in Cold War II.
Niall Ferguson, Harry Halem, and Marcus Hendriks
My Terrorists Face Judgment Day
For most people, the commanders Israel has just eliminated will be foreign names. For me and for the people of Iran they are the monsters who have…
Masih Alinejad
Why Israel Hit Iran Now
The strike may be a catalyst for the collapse of the Islamic Republic altogether.
Eli Lake
Michael Oren: Is Israel About to Strike Iran’s Nuclear Facilities?
In Tel Aviv, it sure feels like it. Meantime, the world watches anxiously to see if Netanyahu will defy Trump and act alone.
Michael Oren
EXCLUSIVE: We Spoke to the Israeli-Backed Militia Leader Fighting Hamas in Gaza
Yasser Abu Shabab is the leader of a new anti-Hamas militia group in Gaza. In an exclusive interview, he talks about ties to Israel, clashes with Hamas…
Tanya Lukyanova
6M
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