It made no difference what Andrew Cuomo did to try to catch up to Zohran Mamdani, whose campaign was superior from start to finish, writes Olivia Reingold. “Looking at the data, we were never winning—ever,” says someone who helped raise millions for Cuomo. | Continue reading
Is 3I/ATLAS a rock or an alien mother ship? Harvard professor Avi Loeb talks to Will Rahn about an interstellar visitor that has confounded astronomers. | Continue reading
Trump's recently announced plan tackles obesity not as a moral failure but as an economic and medical crisis that cheap, accessible drugs might finally fix, writes Kara Kennedy for The Free Press. | Continue reading
In a ‘safe’ district, the general election becomes a formality. Instead of being held accountable by a broad cross section of voters, House members answer only to the party base. | Continue reading
Studying the Estonian language requires niche devotion—it’s useless anywhere else. And an extrovert here is someone who looks at your shoes rather than his own. But it’s where I’m learning to age, writes Jim Heintz. | Continue reading
Memorizing poetry began as a way to kill time in the Marines. It turned into a lesson in how to live with the possibility of death, writes Phil Klay for The Free Press. | Continue reading
This week in The Weekend Press: Larissa Phillips on the Grateful Dead, Suzy Weiss on Sydney Sweeney’s boxing biopic, Kat Rosenfield ‘Teen Vogue,’ two drinks with Gay Talese, and so much more. | Continue reading
This week in Bari's Picks: everything from this week’s elections and much more. | Continue reading
This week in Second Thought: Suzy Weiss reports on the Playboy mansion of nerds, Sydney Sweeney's new movie, robot servants, and more! | Continue reading
You’re not well-dressed unless you wear a hat, according to Gay Talese. And you should keep in mind what will be written in your obituary. Joe Nocera reports on his two drinks with the legendary journalist. | Continue reading
In a now-viral 2020 email, the Silicon Valley billionaire predicted the rise of socialism. Today he tells The Free Press how he knew. | Continue reading
Teenagers need something to worship. In the ’80s, it was the Grateful Dead. What is there now? Larissa Phillips reflects on the iconic band, and what they stand to teach us today. | Continue reading
In our lives, each of us will be blessed with a few great friends. When you recognize one of these people, take good care of that relationship, no matter what, writes Elliot Ackerman for The Free Press. | Continue reading
Reading the magazine, which folded this week, is like stepping back into time—into an era when white women were Karens and the phrase ‘non-prostate owner’ was normal, writes Kat Rosenfield. | Continue reading
This week in TGIF: The strange tale of Kevin Roberts, socialism wins bigly, Maduro is cool again, New Jersey suburbs are popping off, AI will replace us, and so much more. | Continue reading
It’s not about ideology or Israel. This is a battle between those who want votes and those who want views, writes Batya Ungar-Sargon for The Free Press. | Continue reading
If you believe bodily autonomy is the most important thing, then yes: Having a child is ‘absurd.’ Kara Kennedy reports on the progressives against pregnancy. | Continue reading
Today’s conservatives could learn a thing or two from William F. Buckley Jr., who knew how to ask tough questions, and understood the difference between cancellation and coalition building. | Continue reading
Jed Rubenfeld on the tariffs case, the IRS whistleblowers who became Trump administration advisers, and much more. | Continue reading
In investigating Hunter Biden’s tax evasion, two IRS agents say they were simply doing the right thing. Gabe Kaminsky reports on the two men trying to keep Trump from weaponizing the agency against the political left. | Continue reading
Trump says he can levy tariffs whenever and wherever he likes. The Supreme Court doesn’t seem so sure. Jed Rubenfeld breaks down the case that will decide whether Trump's tariffs can stay. | Continue reading
Tuesday’s elections gave the GOP a lesson in political humility, writes Ruy Teixeira. For Democrats, the risk is that a good night papers over major problems. | Continue reading
Americans are understandably frustrated by higher prices. But politicians like Zohran Mamdani promising to instantly lower costs are selling economic fantasies, writes Tyler Cowen for The Free Press. | Continue reading
A young revolutionary is about to come face-to-face with political reality, writes Reihan Salam for The Free Press. | Continue reading
Zohran Mamdani is routinely labeled a “socialist” or an “Islamist sympathizer.” But his worldview isn’t born of Marx or Mecca, writes Zineb Riboua—it’s heir to a 20th-century crusade that turned anti-imperial struggle into a moral identity. | Continue reading
The incentive structure of higher education is broken. My gift to the University of Austin is meant to change that—by tying its success to the real-world achievements of its students, writes Jeff Yass for The Free Press. | Continue reading
The antidote to Marxism has always been experiencing Marxism. Today, the Big Apple becomes an unwitting test subject, writes Coleman Hughes. | Continue reading
And how Sowell’s best book explains what drives our political divides. | Continue reading
How he won and what he’ll do. Plus: Fly-fishing with Dick Cheney, and much more. | Continue reading
The old rules don’t apply. The new fault lines are clear, writes Olivia Reingold. | Continue reading
Slogans like “freeze the rent” and “tax the rich” were easy for Zohran Mamdani to promise, but delivering as New York City mayor will depend on the governor and city council, write Maya Sulkin and Tanner Nau. | Continue reading
A wave of Mamdani-inspired candidates across the country is betting that class warfare and political progressivism can finally beat the Democratic establishment, writes Jonas Du. | Continue reading
Will Rahn and Reihan Salam are joined by journalists, analysts, and surprise guests, as results come in from New York City and across the country. | Continue reading
Years of euphemism have blurred the truth: Boko Haram’s war on Nigerian Christians is not about poverty or climate change—it’s about religious conquest, writes Ebenezer Obadare for The Free Press. | Continue reading
The alleged killer of a healthcare CEO isn’t a right-wing zealot or a leftist radical. He’s something stranger—someone with remarkably normal views. That’s what makes him so disturbing, writes John H. Richardson for The Free Press. | Continue reading
In 2008, when Dick Cheney's approval rating was around 18 percent, Matt Labash landed a rare interview with the VP through their shared love of fly-fishing—a sport, one guide said, that might’ve made Americans like Cheney more if they’d tried it with him. | Continue reading
Jew-hatred was once confined to the fringes of the right. What changed? | Continue reading
MAGA’s space race. Arctic Frost is a scandal. Paul Kingsnorth vs. the machine. And much more in today's Front Page. | Continue reading
In a world of smart toasters, cashless parking meters, and endless scrolling, Paul Kingsnorth explains how we got enveloped by technology and capitalism—and how we can rediscover meaning. | Continue reading
With Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the group has moved from the fringe to the mainstream—and now has its sights on the White House. | Continue reading
A fight about who will lead NASA is also a fight about Elon Musk and the tech bros who are at odds with Trump’s working-class base, writes Batya Ungar-Sargon. | Continue reading
Revelations about the FBI’s investigation of Republican lawmakers suggest a dangerous violation of constitutional norms. | Continue reading
We studied millions of college syllabi. Across each issue we found that the academic norm is to shield students from many of our most important disagreements, write Jon A. Shields, Yuval Avnur, and Stephanie Muravchik for The Free Press. | Continue reading
Conventional wisdom is that child-rearing is stressful, all-consuming, and emotionally taxing. That’s nonsense, write Camilo Ortiz and Julia Martin Burch for The Free Press. | Continue reading
The former Harvard biologist explains sex differences, how testosterone shapes bodies and behavior, and what happens when science collides with ideology. | Continue reading
Tina Brown on how King Charles axed Andrew. Tyler Cowen asks: Is Wall Street too into AI? A shutdown SNAP freeze threatens to leave millions hungry. And much more. | Continue reading
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s anti-tariff ad pleased Canadians who are tired of Trump’s bluster but derailed U.S.-Canada trade talks, writes Rupa Subramanya. | Continue reading
The combative Texas senator talks to The Free Press about Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the rise of ‘bilious bigotry and rage’ on the right. | Continue reading