Tony Hinchcliffe’s new show doesn’t work—here’s why. Also: HBO’s merch play, a new photography exhibit, and how come Gen Z chooses to be watched all the time? | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
The success of ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘The Witcher 3’ points to a deeper yearning: that the ultimate male fantasy isn’t conquest, but connection, writes Aaron Bronfman. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Americans are sent to sweatshops, Gen Z goes to church, Mississippi becomes the education capital of the world, real showers are back, our military is big again, and much, much more. | Continue reading
The story of Passover is not just a Jewish one. Our founding fathers were profoundly inspired by it. So was Cecil B. DeMille. | Continue reading
England in the 1600s was full of radical progress—and also extreme disorder. Those qualities typify our own strange, unpredictable era. | Continue reading
Xi and Trump’s fight for global supremacy. Could the White House strike a deal with Iran as soon as this weekend? A soybean farmer’s appeal to the president. And much more. | Continue reading
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 China. | Continue reading
Xi and Trump are now in a zero-sum contest for global supremacy. | Continue reading
‘By the end of May, we could either have serious talks with Iran or the possibility of military action.’ | Continue reading
The trade war with China could put us out of business by 2027. All our blood, sweat, and toil could vanish with the stroke of a pen. | Continue reading
Gavin Peterson, 12, Jahmeik Modlin, 4, and Marcello Meadows, 10 months. They all died because government agencies are discouraged from helping kids, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley. | Continue reading
Judges are issuing orders that block government policies from taking effect anywhere in the country. Jed Rubenfeld explains what to do about them. | Continue reading
“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 helps us make sense of the markets. | Continue reading
Why Congress won’t block the tariffs. Is it time to buy gold? Open antisemitism at Princeton. And more. | Continue reading
Anti-Israel protesters shut down a campus event by pulling a fire alarm and hurling vile slurs. Will our college president finally act? | Continue reading
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 same again. | Continue reading
Trump’s tariff edicts are a sign of how far the United States’ political reality has strayed from its constitutional design, writes Chuck Lane. | Continue reading
Biden-era funding is under investigation for possible race-based discrimination by the federal government. | Continue reading
Join the former head of Goldman Sachs today at 11 a.m. ET. Bring your questions. | Continue reading
How will tariffs hurt the working class? Meet the Albertan separatists who want to become Americans. ‘Axios’ founders on who broke the media. And much more. | Continue reading
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 journalism, suction eels on the hull of the good ship of state—or, alternatively, two of the most interesting, successful entrepre … | Continue reading
My hometown was wrecked by deindustrialization. These tariffs will only make things worse. | Continue reading
The president’s economic policies could soon be challenged in court. But do the president’s opponents have a chance? | Continue reading
Donald Trump isn’t the first president to blow up the global economy. | Continue reading
A growing band of people from the oil-rich province say they should join forces with the U.S. ‘Canada has screwed over the West for decades.’ | Continue reading
Businesses crave predictability. They have now been robbed of that—and the rest of us will reap the consequences. | Continue reading
The most impressive person in the job since Abigail Adams is J.D.’s best asset if he ever runs for president. She sits down with The Free Press for her first interview in her new role. | Continue reading
Is this precious metal a good use of the funds lazily drawing interest in your bank account? Peter Coy and James Grant debate. | Continue reading
Plus: We talk to workers in the steel and garment industries to find out what they make of this trade war. And more. | Continue reading
Ignore the Wall Street hysteria. The president is trying to end a 50-year injustice directed at the U.S.—and to help the most overlooked Americans. | Continue reading
The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a Minecraft hammer. | Continue reading
Our new columnist reveals his thoughts on what ‘Liberation Day’ means for the American consumer and the world. | Continue reading
Big levies on steel exports may be ‘phenomenal’ for the industry, but workers also expect ‘some pain before you have good.’ | Continue reading
‘The price is going to be so high, it’s not going to be easy to sell to customers. How do you explain a 20 or 30 percent change?’ | Continue reading
Children’s books should remind kids that there are rewards for persevering past pain and fear. This is the actual heart of adventure stories, and the heart of life. | Continue reading
Pop stars hate you. Reality television is a spectrum. Forever 21 is dead. Welcome back to Suzy Weiss’s weekly tour of American culture. | Continue reading
Since it was launched in 2018, the Christian prayer app Hallow has been downloaded 23 million times. Is this the beginning of a religious revival? | Continue reading
Underlying the much-hyped, brand-new show is a deep pessimism about heterosexual relationships. | Continue reading
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the East. | Continue reading
Trump tariffs the world. Elon’s baby mama demands more. Mike Waltz doesn’t learn his lesson. Gayle King goes to space. Merit-based admissions are back. And much, much more. | Continue reading
A brilliant strategic move? A catastrophic own goal? We’ll discuss. Bring all your questions. | Continue reading
The father of a boy smeared as a racist in 2022 talks to our reporter who broke the story—and tells why he finally spoke out. | Continue reading
The father of a boy smeared as a racist in 2022 talks to our reporter who broke the story—and tells why he finally spoke out. | Continue reading
Batya Ungar-Sargon, John McWhorter, Tyler Cowen, Matthew Yglesias, and Matti Friedman. | Continue reading
Why the linguist who critiqued wokeness is now embracing ‘they/them’—and why it will frustrate both the left and right. | Continue reading
This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime. | Continue reading