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Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence? Our Next Live Debate!

— 03.27.25

Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Fei-Fei Li face off against Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr on May 15 in San Francisco.

Isaac Grafstein

— 03.27.25

WATCH: Inside the Largest Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza’s Recent History

Tanya Lukyanova

— 03.28.25

Fight Club: Does Baseball Suck?

Joe Nocera and Will Rahn

— 03.27.25

No, Jackie Robinson Was Not a DEI Hire

Freddie deBoer

— 03.26.25

The Postal Service Doesn’t Exist to Make Money

River Page

— 03.26.25

Is It Time to Privatize the USPS?

Charles Lane

— 03.26.25

What 23andMe Told America About Itself

The disintegration of the DNA-testing company is not just the collapse of a business. It’s the collapse of a culture obsessed with identity.

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Kat Rosenfield

— 03.26.25

Does Baseball Suck? Plus. . .

Oliver Wiseman

— 03.27.25

TGIF: 👊🇺🇸🔥

Nellie Bowles

— 03.28.25

Things Worth Remembering: America Is an Invention

Dominic Green

— 03.23.25

WATCH: Leonard Leo—The Man Who Rebuilt the Supreme Court

The Federalist Society chairman talks Trump, threats against judges, and why the pro-life movement is at the lowest point in its history.

Yuval Levin: You Can’t Run Government Through Retribution

— 03.27.25

Donald Trump’s key early actions are responses to frustrations from his first term. But did he learn the wrong lesson?

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Yuval Levin

— 03.25.25

How Easy Money Bred Bad Ideas

Wokeness was born in a time when money was free. Its demise began when interest rates went up.

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Russ Greene

— 03.18.25

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WATCH: Inside the Largest Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza’s Recent History

Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private

Campus in Crisis

In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.

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Maya Sulkin

— 03.25.25

Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas

Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.

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Maya Sulkin

— 03.24.25

Alan Dershowitz: Mahmoud Khalil Deserves Speech Rights, Not Sympathy

The anti-Israel green card holder’s behavior may be constitutionally defensible, but it’s still morally condemnable.

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Alan Dershowitz

— 03.21.25

Johanna Berkman

— 03.17.25

What Happened to Silicon Valley’s Most Infamous Thought Criminal?

James Damore, the author of the ‘misogynist’ Google memo, was banished from the tech world and became a digital hermit. Now, his ideas have been…

U.S. Politics

Exclusive: Democrats Push to Make Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Public

The legislation would force greater ethics scrutiny on the world’s richest man.

Gabe Kaminsky

— 03.27.25

WATCH: Leonard Leo—The Man Who Rebuilt the Supreme Court

The Federalist Society chairman talks Trump, threats against judges, and why the pro-life movement is at the lowest point in its history.

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Leonard Leo—the Man Who Rebuilt the Supreme Court

— 03.27.25

The Federalist Society chairman talks Trump, threats against judges, and why the pro-life movement is at the lowest point in its history.

Is It Time to Privatize the USPS?

— 03.27.25

If there’s any part of the federal apparatus that could use a dose of radical disruption, it’s the postal service.

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Charles Lane

— 03.26.25

The Group Chat from Hell

Why can’t White House officials just admit they made a mistake and apologize?

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The Editors

— 03.26.25

International

‘Adolescence’ Does a Disservice to Young Men

The new Netflix show is supposed to help counter toxic masculinity. Instead, it’ll exacerbate it.

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Madeleine Kearns

— 03.25.25

The World Happiness Report Is a Sham

The media loves hyping the annual study, but its methodology doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

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Yascha Mounk

— 03.20.25

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

— 03.19.25

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…

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Rupa Subramanya

— 03.19.25

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…

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Tanya Lukyanova

— 03.18.25

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K.

Raising Parents with Emily Oster

Ep 8: Should You Have Kids?

For most of human history, having kids wasn’t much of a choice.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

WATCH: Inside the Largest Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza’s Recent History

“The people want to bring down Hamas.” Exclusive footage from across the Gaza Strip, now engulfed in historic demonstrations.

Breaking History

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.

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

Chapter 7: What If You're Wrong?

Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K.

Raising Parents with Emily Oster

Ep 8: Should You Have Kids?

For most of human history, having kids wasn’t much of a choice.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

WATCH: Inside the Largest Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza’s Recent History

“The people want to bring down Hamas.” Exclusive footage from across the Gaza Strip, now engulfed in historic demonstrations.

Breaking History

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.

What 23andMe Told America About Itself

Culture

The disintegration of the DNA-testing company is not just the collapse of a business. It’s the collapse of a culture obsessed with identity.

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Kat Rosenfield

— 03.26.25

Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally

Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.

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Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch

— 03.27.25

Fight Club: Does Baseball Suck?

Is the sport still a national treasure, or has it gone the way of rotary phones and dial-up internet? Batter up.

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Joe Nocera and Will Rahn

— 03.27.25

No, Jackie Robinson Was Not a DEI Hire

Corporate diversity policy is a 21st-century invention, not a continuation of the civil rights struggle. Stop pretending otherwise.

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Freddie deBoer

— 03.26.25

The Postal Service Doesn’t Exist to Make Money

There are places in rural America where Amazon won’t deliver and FedEx won’t tread. The USPS doesn’t make money serving them—but that’s not the point.

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River Page

— 03.26.25

FP in Israel

Bari Weiss meets Palestinians | FP in Israel

Earlier this year, Bari Weiss and a team of Free Press journalists visited Israel. The result was a series of films, podcasts, and written articles called “FP in Israel.”

Swing State Debates

Swing State Debates Episode Five: The Youth Vote in Michigan

While talking to Generation Z voters, I discovered a troubling consequence of our political divide: Liberal students are often barely familiar with the ideas they are against.

The Freedom Debates

Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence? Our Next Live Debate!

Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity and Fei-Fei Li face off against Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr on May 15 in San Francisco.

The America Debates

Our Next Live Debate: Should the U.S. Still Police the World?

Bret Stephens vs. Matt Taibbi October 9 in New York City. Plus: Watch this week’s debate on the economy now!

FP Live

The Free Press Live: December 4th, 2024

Join Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon as they sit down with guests including Michael Knowles, Rod Dreher, and Geoffrey Cain.

Ben Meets America

Have San Francisco’s ‘Harm Reduction’ Tactics Worked?

We asked police, addicts, and residents to weigh in—while people appeared to overdose in front of our eyes.

Hezbollah's Hostages

WATCH Hezbollah’s Hostages Season Finale: A World Without the Terror Group

History proves that tyranny can be overthrown. With Hezbollah now weakened, the brave dissidents of our series ask: How can we push for real political change?

FP in Israel

Bari Weiss meets Palestinians | FP in Israel

Earlier this year, Bari Weiss and a team of Free Press journalists visited Israel. The result was a series of films, podcasts, and written articles called “FP in Israel.”

Swing State Debates

Swing State Debates Episode Five: The Youth Vote in Michigan

While talking to Generation Z voters, I discovered a troubling consequence of our political divide: Liberal students are often barely familiar with the ideas they are against.