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What We Learned This Year
Mayor Eric Adams, David Sedaris, Bill Maher, Amy Chua, and more on what they learned in 2024.
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The Editors
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The Sugar Plum Sisters
Olivia and Mary Thomas MacKinnon twirl and leap through ‘The Nutcracker’ nearly every night for the New York City Ballet—then they go home to their…
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M.J. Koch
25
Do You Have Aura—or Are You Mid? A Gen-Z Slang Dictionary.
Today, we’re publishing the winner of our 2024 high school essay contest—plus a glossary to help you decode it.
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Mallory Valis
240
Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem
It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case.
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Jesse Singal
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Coleman Hughes: My Mom—and the Case for Assisted Death
My dying mother chose to end terrible suffering. I want others to have that choice, too.
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Coleman Hughes
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Caitlin Clark’s Conundrum
Women’s basketball has never seen such a talent. Players—and owners—who refuse to acknowledge that reality are practicing their own form of racism.
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Joe Nocera
309
The Year of McDonald’s
In 2024, we watched American life unfold beneath the golden arches—from Trump’s drive-through stunt to Luigi Mangione’s final hash brown.
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Chris Arnade
601
The Essential Free Press Gift Guide
Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, Emily Oster, and other Free Pressers share the products that have changed their lives.
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Suzy Weiss
174
What Does Sleeping with 100 Men in One Day Do to the Soul?
An unsettling new documentary about an OnlyFans star—and the real price of sex work.
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River Page
256
Letters to the Editor: ‘I’ve Watched Someone I Love Die’
Plus: Psychedelics could change lives, if they were legal.
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The Free Press
24
Things Worth Remembering: David Foster Wallace on Infinite Things
The great novelist told the class of 2005: Education isn’t about success. It’s about humility.
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Douglas Murray
252
There’s Nothing More Corrupting Than Flying Private
Want to understand the motives of our mercenary elite? Take a trip on a private plane, writes Tina Brown.
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Tina Brown
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