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How to Examine Your Marriage and Your Life
Agnes Callard talks to Bari about marriage, divorce, kids, and living with her current and ex-husband.
Bari Weiss
1HR 9M
My Son Died of a Fentanyl OD. Congress Can Prevent It from Happening to Others.
Cutting Narcan distribution from the budget would be unconscionable.
Peter Richmond
The Tao of Geezerhood
‘My younger self’s sense of self-respect rested on the assumption I was someone who didn’t just look at scenery but actively engaged with it. But that…
Stephen Harrigan
The Women Who Made Us
All of the clichés about motherhood are true. But there’s a lot more to say.
The Free Press
Things Worth Remembering: Nora Ephron on Being a Mom
When debating with a 4-year-old about what color of plate is acceptable for his dinner, you may realize: Motherhood is absurd, and very funny.
Hadley Freeman
I Found Freedom in Bland
Few understand my love for Missouri, but the Show Me State taught me what it means to be American.
Keturah Hickman
How Did Having Babies Become Right-Wing?
The government wants to encourage Americans to have more babies. An eclectic male-dominated coalition has some ideas about how. Can they succeed?
Madeleine Kearns
Parents to SCOTUS: Don’t Force Our Kids to Read Books on Sexuality
The battle over whether parents can have any say about what their children are taught in schools goes to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Bethany Mandel
The Truth About Child Welfare in America
Gavin Peterson, 12, Jahmeik Modlin, 4, and Marcello Meadows, 10 months. They all died because government agencies are discouraged from helping kids.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Things Worth Remembering: Kids These Days Need The Black Stallion
Children’s books should remind kids that there are rewards for persevering past pain and fear. This is the actual heart of adventure stories, and the…
Larissa Phillips
Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch
Letters to the Editor: Two Personal Perspectives on Shaken Baby Syndrome
Plus: A tip from the great Thomas Mallon on filing expenses in the glory days of magazines.
The Free Press
The Junk Science That Gets Parents Convicted of Murder
A Texas man is awaiting execution for shaking his child to death. But even the detective on the case now thinks he’s innocent.
Jennifer Block
How to Keep Chickens in the City
As egg prices rise, the agricultural secretary told Americans: Get some hens! It’s not a bad idea.
Larissa Phillips
WATCH: Andrew Schulz Has Advice for Dems, Jews, and Comics
Bari Weiss
1HR 25M
How I Became a Wife
In the ’70s, my mother gave me a print that read: ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.’ After 25 years of marriage, I couldn’t disagree…
Larissa Phillips
EXCLUSIVE: A High Schooler Graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He Couldn’t Even Read.
Now, the Tennessee teen is suing his school district, Frannie Block reports.
Frannie Block
How American Educators Are Conning Kids
As U.S. students keep falling behind, educators keep lowering standards. ‘It’s like telling everyone they’re a great swimmer when you know half of us…
Frannie Block
Diets Are Bad. Ignoring Childhood Obesity Is Even Worse.
Activists tell parents not to ‘fat shame’ an overweight child or make them go on a diet. But parents who refuse to tackle the issue are putting their…
Robert J. Davis
Bearing Jewish Children After October 7
‘Be good, be strong, and don’t forget us,’ my great-grandfather wrote to his son before he was killed in the Holocaust. We won’t. The new life growing…
Candace Mittel Kahn
Bari and Nellie Are Having a Second Baby—and They Have Questions!
We called our favorite parents for their best advice on the eve of another Free Press baby.
Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles
How Motherhood Liberated Me
‘My daughter doesn’t care if I’m exceptional. She just cares that I am hers.’
Raina Raskin
La Leche League Erases Mothers
The charity that taught me how to breastfeed is eliminating women by calling it ‘chestfeeding.’
Bethany Mandel
Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here’s How to Fix It.
Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage.
Jonathan Haidt
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