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Douglas Murray: Why Britain’s Leaders Forgot How to Lead
Keir Starmer was elected for no reason other than to repudiate the Conservatives. He failed to chart any path forward, like so many of his predecessors.
Douglas Murray
What Do Americans Think When No One Is Watching?
It is core to The Free Press to understand America as it actually is. That work depends in part on understanding what Americans actually believe.
The Editors
Introducing: The Honesty Project
We’re asking Americans what they really believe.
Mene Ukueberuwa
How Vermont Became Ground Zero for the Anti-Israel Movement
Some of America’s most progressive towns are declaring Israel an apartheid regime. Many Jewish Vermonters say the campaign has made their neighbors turn…
Olivia Reingold
Vance Tries to Have It Both Ways on the Iran Deal
The vice president is trying hard to sell an Iran deal that hawks claim is weak while offering an olive branch to noninterventionists who opposed going…
Eli Lake
This Week in American History: The Plot Against Washington
Two hundred fifty years ago this week, the discovery of a conspiracy involving some of the Continental Army’s elite troops caused panic in New York…
Jonathan Horn
I’m Jewish. Can I Still Be a Democrat?
Jewish Americans’ century-long marriage to the left is fracturing. What does that mean for Jews, and for the Democratic Party?
Rafaela Siewert
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Trump Declares Peace. Was the War Worth It? Plus. . .
Life lessons from Knicks fans. Tyler Cowen on the Anthropic-Trump admin bust-up. Coleman Hughes debates anti-Zionist Peter Beinart. And more.
The Free Press
Two Drinks with. . . Trump’s Tourism Czar
Over Negronis in Washington, D.C., the Australian-born reformed shitposter Nick Adams says that he’s ‘the brand ambassador for the United States, the…
River Page
TGIF: We Economists Have Done the Maths
Karmelo Anthony trial reactions, college costs cross six figures, the vice president owns birds, Rosie O’Donnell looks amazing, We the Economists make…
Nellie Bowles
This Week in American History: The Greatest of Ghostwriters
Thomas Jefferson began writing the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago this week, and his finest feat was to so perfectly inhabit our collective…
Jonathan Horn
Graham Platner’s Ex-Girlfriend Wants to Set the Record Straight. Plus. . .
Niall Ferguson and Haviv Rettig Gur on the Iran war. Confessions of a former Taliban recruiter. Will the Iran war last two weeks or 20 years? What’s…
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