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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
America’s Anniversary Is About More Than Trump. What Have We Actually Agreed to with Iran? Plus. . .
River Page reports from the crowd at UFC Freedom 250. Sam Quinones on why LA will miss Spencer Pratt. Matthew Campbell dives into the world of stolen…
The Free Press
America’s Birthday Isn’t About Trump
Trump and his critics are making the president the focus of the country’s 250th anniversary. But Americans have so much more to celebrate.
The Editors
Great Americans: No One Loved America Like Irving Berlin
The man who wrote ‘God Bless America’ loved his adoptive home in the way only an immigrant could. Years later, his words of gratitude echo into…
Charles Fain Lehman
Trump’s Victims Fund Is a Scandal. But It May Be Legal.
The administration should cancel its plan to compensate lawfare victims of its own choosing, even if the courts can’t block it.
Jed Rubenfeld
This Week in American History: John Adams’s Rage Bait
By April 1776, North Carolinians were resolved to separate from Great Britain.
Jonathan Horn
Welcome Home, Artemis II
This was the mission: to push deeper into the unknown, with humanity, with feeling, with awe, and with an unwavering commitment to always, always choose…
The Editors
Will the U.S. Make Israel Its Middle East Headquarters?
The U.S. has long invested in Qatar as its center of operations in the region, but rumblings suggest that might be changing.
Amit Segal
The Iran War: Our Complete Coverage
Every piece of Free Press coverage, from the first strikes to right now.
The Free Press
How America Surrendered Its Weapons in the Information War
Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up and ‘take over your government.’ But can they even hear him?
Frannie Block
Ancient Wisdom: The Stories Bubbe Told
My grandmother hated Russia and loved America. ‘Los Angeles is mine!’ she would announce, gesturing around her small duplex. That apartment represented…
Sarah Flick
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