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How the Country I Was Taught to Hate Saved My Life
A judge has sentenced the hitman Iran sent to kill me on American soil. It’s proof that the country where I sought refuge protects the freedoms I love.
Masih Alinejad
Palmer Luckey and the Future of American Power
Bari Weiss and Palmer Luckey sit down in D.C. for a sweeping conversation about his falling-out with Mark Zuckerberg, AI weapons, why America lost its…
Bari Weiss
1HR 25M
Are We Headed for War with Iran?
Negar Mojtahedi breaks down the state of Iran’s nuclear program since the 12-day war, looming sanctions, the regime’s fate, and its dealings at the…
Rafaela Siewert
44M
Inside the Mossad
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen talks spycraft, the war in Gaza, Palestinian statehood, Iran, Qatar, Israel’s recent mind-boggling missions, and why…
Bari Weiss
1HR 28M
The Ties That Bind Islamists and Progressives
The Gaza war has reignited the strange alliance between the Western left and fanatical Islamists.
Eli Lake
Haviv Rettig Gur Joins The Free Press
He’s the most insightful interpreter of the modern Middle East. Tune in Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. ET for Haviv’s first live Q&A.
Bari Weiss
The Making of Modern Iran
Eli Lake dives into the paradox at the heart of Iranian history: how a country that has revolted time and again always ends up governed by kings.
Eli Lake
1HR 8M
The Iranian Opposition Faces Its Darkest Hour
Iran’s brutal regime has arrested hundreds of political opponents—real and imagined—and the worst is likely yet to come.
Jay Solomon
5M
The Iran Strikes and the Trump Doctrine
Donald Trump isn’t a ‘neocon’ or an ‘isolationist.’ He’s a nationalist.
Yoram Hazony
At the Symbol of Israeli Science, a Cost Too Vast to Calculate
Israelis are emerging from the shelters to assess the damage of 12 days of war. At the Weizmann Institute, the cost is impossible to measure.
Matti Friedman
Our Picks of the Week: War, Peace, and TikTok Jacobins
The aftermath of the strikes in Iran. A socialist rises in New York. And much more.
The Editors
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
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