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No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
The exaggerations on both sides are spectacular. The truth? There’s less to the case than meets the eye, writes Jed Rubenfeld.
Jed Rubenfeld
Fight Club: Execute Luigi Mangione?
Charles Fain Lehman says Mangione’s alleged crime is the very reason the death penalty exists. Nick Gillespie says the government has no business taking…
Charles Fain Lehman  and Nick Gillespie
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas
Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known…
Frannie Block
Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, write Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley for The Free Press.
Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley
Christopher Rufo: The Right Is Winning the Battle over Higher Education
Civil-rights laws have always been a weapon—it’s just that conservatives have finally decided to wield them.
Christopher F. Rufo
How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives
We were told school closures were based on evidence—and were for our own good. Five years later, millions of children are still paying the price.
David Zweig
Think You Can Guess Trump’s Next Move? Think Again.
Guessing the president’s next move is an exercise in intellectual humility, writes Matthew Continetti.
Matthew Continetti
A Young Socialist Wants to Run NYC. Could He Win?
Zohran Mamdani vows to spend billions subsidizing buses, housing, and grocery stores. He says he’ll arrest the Israeli PM if he ever steps foot in NYC…
Olivia Reingold
Sen. Dave McCormick: The Attack on Gov. Shapiro Was an Assault on Democracy
Shapiro is a Democrat. I’m a Republican who supports President Donald Trump. No side has a monopoly on the political violence rising in our country…
Sen. Dave McCormick
Things Worth Remembering: The Haunting Truth of Dostoyevsky’s Demons
Every movement that burns hot enough will attract opportunists, zealots, and destroyers. Even the most righteous cause can be hollowed out from within.
Benjamin Carlson
Will Oakland Finally Reject Progressive Politics?
A special mayoral race in this troubled city is a litmus test for the Democratic Party’s future. ‘Carjackings, home invasions. . . I’ve lost my…
Leighton Woodhouse
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
After a start-up claimed to have de-extincted a species, the internet called BS. But the founders insist it’s real—and the woolly mammoth is next.
Johanna Berkman
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
Tyler Cowen: Welcome to Our Weird and Wild Century. It’s a Lot Like the 17th.
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era.
Tyler Cowen
Niall Ferguson: Will Trade War Become a Real War?
Free Press columnist and esteemed financial and military historian Niall Ferguson sits down with Bari to explain the perils of Trump’s tariff war with…
Bari Weiss
China and America Aren’t Just in a Trade War. It’s a Fight for the 21st Century.
Xi and Trump are now in a zero-sum contest for global supremacy.
Matt Pottinger and Liza Tobin
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
The Legal Trick Being Used to Trip Up Trump
Judges are issuing orders that block government policies from taking effect anywhere in the country. Jed Rubenfeld explains what to do about them.
Jed Rubenfeld
Wall Street Is Panicking. But Lloyd Blankfein Isn’t Sweating It.
“I think some of these things need to be done. I just don’t think we should risk the kind of chaos that could push us into a recession.” Lloyd Blankfein…
Bari Weiss
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Martin Gurri: When Americans Gave Up Their Freedoms
Five years ago, it was decided: a pandemic was to be solved by brute force and propaganda. There was no revolt. And the free world will never be the…
Martin Gurri
Think Congress Will Stop Trump’s Tariffs? Think Again.
Trump’s tariff edicts are a sign of how far the United States’ political reality has strayed from its constitutional design, writes Chuck Lane.
Charles Lane
Exclusive: Trump Administration Freezes $2.7 Billion in ‘Digital Equity’ Grants
Biden-era funding is under investigation for possible race-based discrimination by the federal government.
Gabe Kaminsky
WATCH LIVE: Bari Weiss and Lloyd Blankfein on Tariffs, Trade, and Trump’s Economy
Join the former head of Goldman Sachs today at 11 a.m. ET. Bring your questions.
Bari Weiss
Axios Founders: Who Broke the Media?
Depending on who you talk to, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are either the swampiest of swamp creatures—the epitome of all that is wrong with political…
Bari Weiss
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