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River Page
River Page is a reporter at The Free Press.
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Welcome to Secular Sharia
Drunks, cheaters, and Karens beware: TikTok is the new home for public floggings.
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How to Make a Racist a Free-Speech Martyr
Shiloh Hendrix went viral when she screamed the n-word on a playground. Now she’s been convicted of disorderly conduct, despite her awful actions being…
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Meet the ‘Anti-Platners’: Real Blue-Collar Democrats
A mechanic, a smoke jumper, and an ordinary firefighter may offer Democrats their best hope of winning back working-class voters.
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Yes, Phones Are Bad. But Can You Live Without One?
I went to the much-hyped anti-tech conference, where everyone was wondering: How do you give up apps in a modern world that assumes you have them?
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Two Drinks with. . . The Trump Adviser Headed to OpenAI
Dean Ball was advising the White House on emerging technology—and this week he took a job at the frontier lab. Of the future, he says: ‘A lot of crazy…
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Could a Libertarian Tip the Texas Senate Race?
Ted Brown claimed 2.4 percent of the vote in his last Senate run. That could be enough to spoil a tight race.
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Inside the Crowd at Trump’s Big Fight
‘It’s the president’s birthday, somebody needs to get knocked out,’ said one of the guys I watched UFC Freedom 250 with.
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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…
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Why the Attacks on Graham Platner Don’t Work
The evidence of past affairs is the latest of many scandals. Yet none have stuck because his troubles strike many as relatable.
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The Rise and Fall of America’s First N-Word Influencer
‘Chud the Builder’ goes viral by walking up to black people and using racial slurs. He was just arrested for shooting someone. How did we get here?
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Luxury Crimes at ‘The New York Times’
At America’s paper of record, wealthy media figures debate the merits of theft.
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AI Is Coming. Becoming an Electrician Won’t Save You.
White-collar workers at risk of being replaced by AI have been told to go to trade school. But is ‘learn a trade’ the new ‘learn to code’?
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