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How did Pierre Poilievre lose a 20-point lead? Trucker organizers face 10 years in prison. Antisemitism at McGill University. And much more from the…
Rupa Subramanya
Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Looks a Lot Like Obama’s
Washington has leverage over Tehran. Why won’t the administration press the advantage?
Eli Lake
Bari Weiss: My Picks of the Week
We’re publishing a lot these days. Here’s what you can’t miss. It’s a dizzy, disorienting moment. Let us help you make sense of it.
Bari Weiss
Will the U.S. Strike a Deal with Iran This Weekend?
‘By the end of May, we could either have serious talks with Iran or the possibility of military action.’
Jay Solomon
EXCLUSIVE: The Family of a Murdered Gaza Protester Speaks Out
After they tortured him and mutilated his body, they dropped him off a rooftop with a note pinned to his clothes: ‘This is the price for all who…
Tanya Lukyanova
I Used to Be a Complacent Wall Street Guy. Now I’m an Anti-Trump Protester.
Evan Newmark had never participated in a protest in his life. Three weeks ago, that changed. Now, every day, he heads to the Trump Hotel. Why?
Evan Newmark
What Does the New Right Want?
You can’t understand policymaking without ideology. And you can’t understand the Trump White House without understanding this burgeoning movement.
Noah Smith
‘Adolescence’ Does a Disservice to Young Men
The new Netflix show is supposed to help counter toxic masculinity. Instead, it’ll exacerbate it.
Madeleine Kearns
The World Happiness Report Is a Sham
The media loves hyping the annual study, but its methodology doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Yascha Mounk
Luigi Mangione and the History of Bourgeois Terrorism
The alleged CEO assassin is not the first elite to break rad. The notorious Ulrike Meinhof also took the plunge from protest to resistance.
Eli Lake
These Canadians Are Ready to Go to War with America
‘Many of us would rather have our eyes spooned out, be thrown in acid, have our heart pulled out of our mouth than have anything to do with the United…
Rupa Subramanya
WATCH: They Fled Iran Fearing Death. Then the U.S. Deported Them to Panama.
A group of Iranian Christian converts thought they had made it safely to the U.S. before they were shackled, loaded onto a military plane, and sent…
Tanya Lukyanova
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WATCH: ‘I’ve Lost 23 Relatives. We All Might Be Killed.’
An exclusive Free Press report on the massacre in Syria.
Tanya Lukyanova
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Niall Ferguson: A User’s Guide to Wrecking the Global Financial System
Ordinary Americans elected Trump because they expected him to make things better. Did they realize they were getting a reactionary economic project?
Niall Ferguson
The Whistleblower Meta Is Trying to Silence
An arbitrator has barred Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her explosive new book. We got one of the only interviews.
Bari Weiss
Syria’s New Rulers Tortured Me. Now They Are Targeting My Friends.
My captors dreamed of total rule. Now, the Alawites and the Christians live under their nightmare.
Theo Padnos
In This English Village, Asylum Seekers May Soon Outnumber the Locals
The people of Wethersfield do not deny that the newcomers have changed their lives. But they are afraid to discuss it on their own doorsteps.
Dominic Green
When War Crashed Through the Window
Muscovites have long been insulated from the war their country launched. That changed on Tuesday, when Ukraine unleashed a major drone attack on the…
Tanya Lukyanova
Fight Club: Are Israel and Ukraine’s Wars the Same—or Worlds Apart?
Eli Lake believes it is incoherent to continue support for Israel while cutting off Ukraine. Michael Brendan Dougherty disagrees.
Eli Lake and Michael Brendan Dougherty
Douglas Murray: How MAGA Lost Its Way on Ukraine
Ukraine is not just a country that the Trumpian right has never visited. It is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about.
Douglas Murray
Truth Mattered in the Cold War. And It Matters Now in Ukraine.
Honorable men went to the gulag for refusing to repeat the Kremlin’s lies. Now an American president is echoing them for free.
Eli Lake
Larry Summers Thinks Trump’s Tariffs Are a Disaster
The former Treasury secretary says: ‘I have never seen as irrational a consequential policy put in place by an American administration.’
Oliver Wiseman
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Revolutionize America?
Change is underway—at the border, in our federal government, and abroad. But several forces threaten to undermine success.
Victor Davis Hanson
Michael Rapaport: A Message to My Haters up North
A Canadian politician is trying to bar me from the country where I’m scheduled to perform a few gigs. I’m offering her front-row seats.
Michael Rapaport
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