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In Defense of an Online Life. Plus. . .
Are we about to discover who betrayed Anne Frank? The torture of tariff uncertainty. Harvey Weinstein is back on the stand. And much more.
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Marco Rubio on Iran, Deportations, China, and More. Plus. . .
Pete Hegseth’s circular firing squad, the young black Democrat under fire from the left, and much more.
Bari Weiss
Parents’ Rights Gets Its Day in Court. Plus. . .
Trans comments cost him his job; now he’s a millionaire. Will Trump’s tariffs kill global MAGA? Another Pete Hegseth group chat snafu. And more.
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Is Donald Trump Breaking the Law? Seven Experts Weigh In. Plus. . .
Pope Francis Dies at 88. The patron saint of lost Westerners. The government demands an antisemitism report from Harvard. And more.
The Editors
Trump Turns Off the ‘Disinformation’ Spigot. Plus. . .
Is Trump defying the Supreme Court? Jed Rubenfeld says: Hold on a minute. Should Luigi Mangione get the death penalty? We battle it out. Ross Douthat…
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Trump vs. Harvard. Plus. . .
Charles Lane and Chris Rufo weigh in on the showdown. Plus: The state of the race in the 51st state. Steve Witkoff reverses course. And much more.
Oliver Wiseman
Will New York Elect a Champagne Socialist? Plus. . .
A cosmic bachelorette party. Is Trump repeating Obama’s mistake on Iran? Why no one can predict the president’s next move. And much more.
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Is Apple Too Big to Fail? Who Is Winning the AI Race? Plus. . .
An arsonist targets Governor Josh Shapiro’s home on Passover. Tyler Cowen bucks conventional wisdom on China. A litmus test for Oakland progressives…
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America and China Are Getting Divorced. It’s Not Amicable. Plus. . .
Xi and Trump’s fight for global supremacy. Could the White House strike a deal with Iran as soon as this weekend? A soybean farmer’s appeal to the…
Oliver Wiseman
Martin Gurri: When Americans Gave Up Their Freedoms. Plus. . .
Why Congress won’t block the tariffs. Is it time to buy gold? Open antisemitism at Princeton. And more.
Will Rahn
Is Trump Repeating the ‘Nixon Shock’? Plus. . .
How will tariffs hurt the working class? Meet the Albertan separatists who want to become Americans. ‘Axios’ founders on who broke the media. And much…
Madeleine Kearns
Niall Ferguson and Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean
Plus: We talk to workers in the steel and garment industries to find out what they make of this trade war. And more.
Oliver Wiseman
‘Liberation Day.’ The Birth of a MAGA Lefty. Qatargate. And More.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, John McWhorter, Tyler Cowen, Matthew Yglesias, and Matti Friedman.
Bari Weiss
‘What I Saw at the MAGA Revolution.’ Plus...
Pam Bondi seeks the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. The White House’s battle against the cartels. The former Wall Street honcho protesting Trump. And…
Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss: Big News from Our Newsroom
Tyler Cowen, Jed Rubenfeld, Coleman Hughes, and others join The Free Press. Plus: NIH chief Jay Bhattacharya sits down for his first interview. And much…
Bari Weiss
Trump’s War on Big Law. Plus. . .
‘My two weeks in ICE detention.’ Gazans rise up against Hamas. A school district insists its DEI training manuals are ‘trade secrets.’ A man whose kid…
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Does Baseball Suck? Plus. . .
Freddie deBoer on Jackie Robinson. Olivia Reingold on the New York mayor’s race. Should the postal service be privatized? The group chat from hell. And…
Oliver Wiseman
Uri Berliner: NPR Should Refuse Federal Funds. Plus. . .
Michael Oren on Bibi’s political immortality. Why the MAGA hard-liners want Mike Waltz gone. Columbia University appears to renege on its promise to…
River Page
The Group Chat That Shocked Washington. Plus. . .
Matt Continetti on the Trump admin’s Iran divide. How the media botched a police shooting story. Suzy Weiss on Trump’s portrait and vain men. And more.
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What’s Next for the Democrats?
Ruy Teixeira on why progressives don’t want progress. The congresswoman who hopes to lead the new Resistance. Alan Dershowitz on Mahmoud Khalil. And…
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Inside the Cult of Luigi Mangione. Plus. . .
Eli Lake on the history of bourgeois terrorism. Rupa Subramanya on the Canadians prepping for invasion. Peter Savodnik on the JFK files. And more.
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The Illegal Immigrants Who Love Trump. Plus. . .
Iranian Christians fled to America to avoid being killed; now they’re stuck in Panama. What does wokeness have to do with the economy? Plenty. Life…
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What Happened to Silicon Valley’s Most Infamous Thought Criminal?
James Damore was unpersoned after he wrote a memo at Google. Now he’s living as a digital hermit in Luxembourg. We tracked him down.
Bari Weiss
Can Trump Justify His Trade War? Plus. . .
Governor JB Pritzker memory-holes DEI. Christopher Caldwell on economics. An exclusive report from the ground in Syria. And much more.
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