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River Page
River Page is a reporter at The Free Press. Previously, he worked as a staff writer at Pirate Wires, covering technology, politics, and culture. His work has also appeared in Compact, American Affairs, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications.
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The End of DEI? Plus. . .
Coleman Hughes on Trump’s color-blind agenda. Plus: Is the president’s meme coin a scam? Kat Rosenfield on ‘Severance.’ Ben Kawaller on San Francisco’s…
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Can Trump Transform America with a Stroke of His Sharpie?
The case against freeing a dark web drug lord—and the violent January 6 rioters. How much can the president change by executive order? Why the deep…
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The Evolution of Marco Rubio. Plus...
Biden’s broadband boondoggle. Eric Adams gets his brows done. Inside the Rose Bowl’s firefighter village. A conversation with a ‘climate realist.’ Eli…
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I Joined TikTok Refugees on RedNote. Here’s What It’s Like.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.
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Porn Is Inevitable
The Supreme Court is about to decide if requiring age verifications on explicit sites is unconstitutional. But whatever happens, porn will survive.
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Who Will Buy TikTok From China? Plus. . .
Biden’s transgender prison policy goes to court. Is Taylor Swift a threat to free speech? And much more.
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Joe Biden Was Never a Moderate. Plus. . .
Darkness falls on Venezuela. Los Angeles burns. Nicole Kidman's 'Babygirl.' And much more.
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Escape from Los Angeles. Plus. . .
The Indians locked out of the American Dream. A defense of Jerry Springer. The women who spoke out about Britain’s grooming gangs before Elon Musk. And…
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Jerry Springer Was Trash. But He Was Honest.
Unlike Oprah and Dr. Phil, he didn’t try to reassure us we were good people for wanting a freak show.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Vibe Shift. Plus. . .
Nicotine: a conservative vice in vogue. Too little, too late for the Facebook fact-checkers. Why Canadians are to blame for Trudeau. California…
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Donald Trump, the Smokers’ President
What one entrepreneur calls ‘the jihad from our liberal elite against nicotine’ has made smoking a conservative cause.
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Farewell to Canada’s Golden Boy. Plus. . .
How to save New York City. Why words matter. Ban masks now. And more.
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