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My Spare Embryos
I used IVF to start my family. Years later, I’m still wrestling with what to do with the embryos I didn’t use.
Justine El-Khazen
Revenge of the Climate Realists
For years, those who questioned the calamity of climate change were treated like pariahs. Now, their day of vindication has come.
Peter Savodnik
We Gave Students Laptops and Took Away Their Brains
Decades of data show a clear pattern: The more schools digitize, the worse students perform.
Jared Cooney Horvath
The Cost of Confused Climate Science
A retracted blockbuster study shows the motivated reasoning that fuels climate hysteria.
The Editors
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no…
Leor Sapir
Is Designing Babies Unethical—or a Moral Imperative?
We brought together a panel of experts—Jamie Metzl, Allyson Berent, O. Carter Snead, and Lydia Dugdale—to debate the ethics of editing embryos.
Bari Weiss
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I Got Surgery to Restore My Hearing. I Regret It.
Speech-to-text and AI-assisted hearing aids are erasing the line between deaf and hearing.
Richard Vigilante
Letters to the Editor: The Fight over Conversion Therapy
‘We can’t stop conversion therapy. But we have to try,’ wrote River Page on Monday. Our readers continue the conversation.
The Free Press
Why I Cut Ties with Science’s Top Publisher
After years reviewing and publishing with Nature Portfolio’s journals, I can no longer support its shift from scientific rigor to ideological activism.
Anna Krylov
Have American Institutions Become Overly Feminized?
Helen Andrews says that wokeness and cancel culture are a byproduct of ‘the great feminization.’ Is she right? Seven women discuss.
The Editors
Estrogen Is Back
Estrogen for menopause was demonized for decades. Now some vocal, very online doctors are saying it’s a miracle drug. The FDA appears to agree.
Jennifer Block
Will the Aliens Be Here by Christmas?
Is 3I/ATLAS a rock or an alien mother ship? Harvard professor Avi Loeb talks to Will Rahn about an interstellar visitor that has confounded astronomers…
Will Rahn
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