Michael Lind: Why Tariffs Are Good

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

MAGA’s Tariff Talking Points Are Bound to Backfire

Republicans risk repeating Democrats’ mistake—forgetting it’s the economy, stupid. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Exclusive: Amid Turmoil, ActBlue Faces Call for Terror-Financing Investigation

A Republican lawmaker has asked the Treasury to look into ‘credible allegations’ against the Democratic fundraising platform. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Fight Club: Does Backing Israel While Scaling Back in Ukraine Make Sense?

Eli Lake believes it is incoherent to continue support for Israel while cutting off Ukraine. Michael Brendan Dougherty disagrees. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Mahmoud Khalil and the Fight over Free Speech. Plus. . .

A White House official says the case is a ‘blueprint’ for more arrests. An explosive new book from a Facebook whistleblower. Tina Brown on Meghan Markle. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

WATCH: Meet Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s Highest-Ranking Whistleblower

You may have never heard of Sarah Wynn-Williams, but that’s about to change. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning

A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that his case is a blueprint for more arrests. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is Trump’s Mineral Deal Unprecedented? Not Exactly.

For lessons on the president’s offer to Ukraine, look back at FDR. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Tina Brown: Meghan Markle’s Buzzkill

Five years after Megxit, the Sussexes’ life is now all about pretending. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Lady Gaga and the Mayhem of Modern Music

If you want to hear how playlists, Spotify, and the shuffle function have changed studio albums forever, listen to the pop star’s latest. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Jailed. Pardoned. Now Rod Blagojevich Wants to Be a ‘Trumpocrat’

With a presidential pardon in the bag, the disgraced ex-governor may be eyeing a run for mayor of Chicago. ‘I’m at the stage of my life that’s a new beginning.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How Trump Loosened the Rules for Hunting Terrorists. Plus. . .

The state rep censured for defending girls’ sports. Why are so many young men taking erectile dysfunction medicine? The astroturfed resistance. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Inside the Trump Resistance, Funded by the Ultra-Wealthy

Anti-Trump groups like ‘Families Over Billionaires’ present themselves as grassroots campaigns for ordinary Americans. The truth is very different. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How Trump Loosened the Rules for Hunting Terrorists

‘We undid four years of insanity,’ counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka tells The Free Press. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Inside the Erectile Dysfunction Industrial Complex

Are men struggling with ED at high enough rates to justify the number of products they’re advertised for it? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

I Was Elected to Fight for Women and Girls. Maine Democrats Censured Me for Doing Just That.

My progressive colleagues all but kicked me out of my state’s House of Representatives for saying boys shouldn’t compete against girls. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Hi, My Name Is Allan, and I’m a Compulsive Gambler

By the time I was 13, all I wanted for my birthday was my own bookie. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Money Can Ruin Your Life

I was born into poverty, and I believed wealth meant happiness. But F. Scott Fitzgerald taught me that prosperity can destroy you. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

How I Became a Wife

In the ’70s, my mother gave me a print that read: ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.’ After 25 years of marriage, I couldn’t disagree more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

WATCH: Does the West Need a Religious Revival?

Ross Douthat and Ayaan Hirsi Ali face off against Michael Shermer and Adam Carolla in our latest live debate. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds

To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia

The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Scam Nation

Trump backs a federal crypto reserve, the Tate brothers come home, Gavin Newsom swings right, RFK goes pro-vax, ‘carbon fundamentalism’ is the problem, and much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Dr. Bhattacharya Comes to Washington. Plus. . .

California universities face new antisemitism probe. Our editors on why fiscal sanity means getting beyond DOGE. China says it’s “ready for war.” And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Two Cheers for DOGE

It turns out that Washington spends our money on some very, very stupid things. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Exclusive: The EPA Demands an Accounting of the $20 Billion Climate Fund

‘If you ask me where all this money is going,’ says EPA head Lee Zeldin, ‘I actually don’t know.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

DOGE Cut Off Funds to NED. Now They’re Suing.

The National Endowment for Democracy says the executive branch has no authority to stop their funding. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

America Didn’t Need Alec Baldwin’s Sob Story

After accidentally killing someone on set, the actor could have stepped out of the spotlight. Instead, he stars in a reality show about the ordeal. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Are NIH Cuts Efficient—or Dangerous for Americans?

Two cancer doctors debate whether Trump’s slashing of billions to the National Institutes for Health will boost public health or destroy it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System

The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are perceived to be Jewish or Israeli.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump Puts On a Show. Plus. . .

Victor Davis Hanson on whether MAGA will deliver. Larry Summers on the trade war. The anti-power couple. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump to Columbia: Fix Campus Antisemitism or Lose $5 Billion in Federal Funds

Fed probe ‘is as serious as can be,’ says task force member. ‘I have the Department of Education guys texting me every day asking when they can start canceling and terminating grants.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Dolly Parton’s Disappearing Husband

Carl Dean, who was married to Dolly Parton for the past 60 years, rejected the limelight. More couples should follow in their footsteps. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits

It appears the billions didn’t revitalize anything—except the coffers of a range of environmental nonprofits associated with former Obama and Biden administration officials. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

LISTEN: The Best Reality TV Is Actually in the Oval Office

It’s been four days since the diplomatic earthquake went down in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Trump Shouldn’t Tolerate Andrew Tate

MAGA is a big tent. But it’s not big enough for an alleged human trafficker who brags about beating women. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Can Josh Shapiro Save the Democrats? Plus…

Michael Rapaport stands up to Canadian bullies. MAGA splits over Andrew Tate. Brat summer is replaced by Chalamet spring. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Anora and the Pain and Power of Being Sexy

The Oscar-winning film reveals that a woman can be smaller, weaker, and victimizable, but also have the upper hand—not in spite of these things, but because of them. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

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. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Josh Shapiro Has the Ideas. Will He Take the Gloves Off?

If the Pennsylvania governor wants to be president, he’s going to have to call his fellow Democrats on their BS. Will he? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Grandma Arrested by Scotland’s Speech Police

Rose Docherty, 74, was handcuffed and taken into custody last month for violating Britain’s censorship laws. She tells The Free Press: ‘I’m an elderly woman. What are they afraid of?’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Timothée Chalamet and the Rise of the Try-Hards

Out with ironic distance, and in with excellence—or at least the pursuit of it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Ukraine Crisis: What We’re Thinking—and Debating

Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Caldwell, Michael Oren, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Ukraine Crisis: What We’re Thinking—and Debating

Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Caldwell, Michael Oren, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago