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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.
July 28, 2025
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.’
July 28, 2025
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.’
July 27, 2025
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.
July 27, 2025
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.
July 23, 2025
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.
July 22, 2025
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.
July 20, 2025
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…
July 15, 2025
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.
July 10, 2025
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.
July 8, 2025
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…
June 26, 2025
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.’
June 23, 2025
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.
June 23, 2025
Niall Ferguson
Did Trump Just End a War—or Start One?
The risks of escalation—and mission creep—are real.
June 22, 2025
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.
June 22, 2025
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.
June 22, 2025
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…
June 19, 2025
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…
June 17, 2025
Nathan Gardels
Debate: Should the U.S. Intervene in Iran?
Two former Pentagon officials square off on America’s role in the war.
June 17, 2025
Dan Caldwell
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Simone Ledeen
Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West
A blow for the good guys in Cold War II.
June 13, 2025
Niall Ferguson
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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…
June 13, 2025
Masih Alinejad
Why Israel Hit Iran Now
The strike may be a catalyst for the collapse of the Islamic Republic altogether.
June 13, 2025
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.
June 12, 2025
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…
June 12, 2025
Tanya Lukyanova
6M
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