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Oliver Wiseman

Oliver Wiseman is a senior editor and writer for The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.

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It’s the Economy, Stupid. Plus. . .
Peter Coy, Michael Lind, and Erick Erickson on market turbulence. Christopher Rufo on right-wing Jew-hate. The war comes through the window in Moscow…
Oliver Wiseman
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
The Ukraine Crisis: What We’re Thinking—and Debating
Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Caldwell, Michael Oren, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and more.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
The Ukraine Crisis: What We’re Thinking—and Debating
Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Caldwell, Michael Oren, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and more.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution. Plus. . .
Matthew Continetti on the new world order. Trump’s art of the deal with Apple. Suzy Weiss meets the most English man in the world. And much more.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
Americans Stir Up Trouble in Europe. Plus. . .
The ‘brokenists’ go to Washington. Kemi Badenoch on DOGE. Suzy Weiss says comedians are getting too hot. Rick Caruso dishes on Jeffrey Katzenberg. And…
Oliver Wiseman
The ‘Everything Is Broken’ Administration
‘The choice was between a slow canoe ride through more of the same, or a roller coaster. Americans chose the roller coaster.’
Oliver Wiseman
BREAKING: Politician Gives Good Speech
'We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias,' Vice President J.D. Vance said.
Oliver Wiseman
Salman Rushdie: ‘I Was Dying.’ Plus. . .
DOGE comes for the National Endowment for Democracy. What DEI isn’t. J.D. Vance’s overseas debut. And more.
Oliver Wiseman
Meet the MAHA Moms. Plus. . .
RFK gets grilled in the Senate—and in our letters section. An AI dissent. Evan Barker. And much more.
Oliver Wiseman
How Much Can Trump Change with the Stroke of His Pen?
Jed Rubenfeld separates hype from reality on Trump’s executive orders.
Oliver Wiseman
Trump’s Back. What Now?
Pardons, parties, the Panama Canal—and much, much more from Inauguration Day.
Oliver Wiseman
Trump’s Back. What Now?
In his inaugural address, the president’s proposals were a mix of the serious and the strange.
Oliver Wiseman
Best of The Free Press: Don’t Lie
Oliver Wiseman reflects on one clear—and crucial—lesson of this turbulent political year.
Oliver Wiseman
Christmas in the Gulag. Trudeau in Trouble. How the Drone Theories Stack Up. Plus. . .
Can we trust Syria’s new leaders? We ask their former detainee. And much more.
Oliver Wiseman
‘Polio Ravaged My Family.’ Political Violence Is Back. Plus. . .
Caitlin Clark’s greatness, why Georgians have taken to the streets, and much more.
Oliver Wiseman
Inside Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse.’ Plus. . .
Syria’s Christians fear what comes next.
Oliver Wiseman
Meet Kemi Badenoch, New Tory Leader and Would-Be Thatcher. Plus. . .
What the new leader of Britain’s Tories is willing to die for. Plus: Merkel’s disastrous legacy, and what does sleeping with 100 men in one day do to…
Oliver Wiseman
After Assad
Simon Sebag Montefiore on what’s next in Syria. Plus: Eli Lake on the problem with preemptive pardons, our next live event, and much more.
Oliver Wiseman
Is WWIII Already Underway? Is Hegseth Toast? Plus. . .
Russian draft dodgers in Bali, young Canadians swing right, Ryan Holiday on Honestly, and more.
Oliver Wiseman
Biden’s Hunter Hypocrisy, What’s Happening in Syria, and More
Eli Lake on presidential double standards. Haviv Rettig Gur on a region on a knife edge. Plus: How to quit your smartphone.
Oliver Wiseman
Can RFK Jr. Make America Healthy Again?
Vinay Prasad’s litmus test for the HHS pick’s ideas. Plus: Catherine Herridge fights for press freedom, the future of the right, and more.
Oliver Wiseman
Gen Xers for Trump. Plus. . .
Is Matt Gaetz’s nomination dead on arrival?, Trump-AOC ticket splitters. And much more.
Oliver Wiseman
Rubio, Gabbard, and Gaetz. . . Oh My!
The Free Press gets the scoop on Trump's cabinet picks. ‘I’m already hearing from a wide number of solid and capable conservatives great consternation…
Oliver Wiseman
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