TGIF: Useful Idiots

Terrorists have brainwashed America. A woke ‘Snow White’ has been canceled. Long live Queen Hillary. Plus: equitable bird names, Mike Johnson is poor, and much, much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Untold Stories of Gazans

What do ordinary Palestinians think about Hamas? The war? How are they surviving amid cascading tragedies? We spoke to them. Listen. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

What Happens When You Escape Death?

The story of one man and a miracle drug. Plus: Rep. Mike Gallagher on banning TikTok, and the progressives threatening to sink Biden over the war. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok.

The app is digital fentanyl made by China. And it is brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies, argues Rep. Mike Gallagher. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

I’m a Jew at ‘The Guardian.’ I Don’t Feel Safe at Work.

An anonymous employee describes the hostile environment at Britain’s foremost left-leaning newspaper. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Unbearable Burden of Being

After a miracle drug unexpectedly saved Jimmy Menkaus’s life, he has no idea how to live it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Are We Tipping into a New World War?

Walter Russell Mead reads the geopolitical tea leaves. Plus: Joe Nocera on Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial and Eli Lake on the legacy of Frantz Fanon. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Frantz Fanon, Oracle of Decolonization

The writer who coined the term “decolonization” thought he was talking to “the wretched of the earth.” Instead, his work was read by elites—to disastrous effect. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Are We Tipping Into a New World War?

Historian Walter Russell Mead explains how the war between Israel and Hamas connects to changing global forces that affect every American. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

A World Spinning Out of Control

Listen now (76 mins) | There are a lot of experts that you may have heard on the news in the past few weeks. People who know a great deal about Hamas or Hezbollah or Iran or China or Russia—regional experts. There are also many subject matter experts who can tell us about c … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Humiliating Cross-Examination of SBF

“Did you say in private, ‘Fuck regulators?’ ” | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Stories About ‘Waking Up from Woke’

A political realignment in three acts. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

What Happens When There Aren’t Enough Jews to Lynch?

Ask the mob in Dagestan, Russia. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Black Activist Trying to Save Oakland from ‘Phony’ Woke Progressives

Seneca Scott says his city and its leadership are broken. He has a plan to fix both. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Great Betrayal

The left’s reaction to the massacre in Israel has many progressive Jews in the West rethinking their past activism, political affiliations, and friendships. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

‘This Is Not the America I Knew’

The recent wave of nearly 130,000 migrants to New York City is angering Hispanic residents—enough to make them consider voting red. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’

My country, and others, found there is no solid evidence supporting the medical transitioning of young people. Why aren’t American clinicians paying attention? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Announcing the Second Free Press Essay Contest

Calling all older (and wiser) readers! We want to hear from you. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Delights and Frights of Halloween

A Thomas Hardy poem still brings chills to the spine more than a century after its publication. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Four Stories about Parenting

Grizzly dad Steve Rinella wants you to raise adventurous children, the virtues of being a young mom, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

I See the Hostages in My Children’s Faces

The joy we felt as Jews in America has turned to collective grief, along with the sense our lives will never be the same again. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Battle Hymn of the Grizzly Dad

Exposing your children to the dangers of the natural world isn’t irresponsible. It’s good parenting. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Tough Choices Facing America, Israel, and the West

As Israel ramps up operations in Gaza, Niall Ferguson, Matt Pottinger, and J.D. Vance on what happens next. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

‘We Need to Respond to Their Attacks with Force’

Matt Pottinger on How to Handle the Iranian Regime. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Israel—and America—Have No Choice but to Act

As Israel begins its ground invasion in Gaza, Niall Ferguson and Jay Mens on the hard strategic decisions facing the West. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

The Benefits of Being a Young Mom

Every time I peek at the mommy chat rooms, I wonder: What is making them so anxious? And whatever happened to the time-honored tradition of winging it? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

America Can’t Intervene Everywhere. Where Should It?

Biden insists we can do it all. But J.D. Vance leads a growing band in Washington who say that’s wishful thinking. He spoke to The FP. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

A World Without Babies

The most private choice we make has potent public consequences. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

TGIF: It Got Worse

The Hamas spa has shampoo. The House gets a new Speaker. A Maoist cult collapses. Victoria’s Secret has sex appeal. And much, much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

How Hamas Executed a Massacre, and How One Israeli with Nine Bullets Fought Back

Listen now (73 mins) | It’s been almost three weeks since Hamas attacked Israel. And there are three questions that, despite having reported on it so much over the last 19 days, many people are still asking. The first is what exactly happened that day, minute by minute, and … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Michael Oren: A War Against the Jews

Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Why My Generation Hates Jews

My peers have been indoctrinated to believe that Jews are oppressors. And so even our mass slaughter is seen as justifiable revenge. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

When an Old Friend Is Ripping Down Posters of Kidnapped Children

Plus: ‘I was fired for setting academic standards.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 10 months ago

Six Myths About Hamas

‘Hamas seeks peace.’ ‘Their rockets are harmless.’ And more lies we’ve been told for years that keep getting repeated today. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

‘I Was Fired for Setting Academic Standards’

Sure, you could study hard to get a degree. But at Spelman, where I taught, you could also get a top administrator to change your grades. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

My Old Friend Is Ripping Down Posters of Kidnapped Children

Around the world, young people are tearing down photographs of innocent Israelis abducted by Hamas. One of them is Sarah. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

‘I Understood My Life Is Going to End’: A Mother Describes 20 Hours in a Safe Room

Sofie Berzon MacKie on what went through her mind while terrorists attacked her kibbutz, and the first thought she had after she was rescued. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Hatred on Our Doorsteps

Plus: the world on the brink, and John McWhorter in TFP. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

John McWhorter: The Ultimate Condescension Toward Palestinians

There is a patronizing racism in the idea that slaughtering innocent people equates to noble freedom fighting, as if this were the only way to respond to oppression. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

I’m Sorry, But I Can’t Tip the Whole World

Everyone today—from cashiers to robot kiosks—expects a big gratuity for ringing up an order. Olivia Reingold asks: Can you refuse without looking like a jerk? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

I Watched Hamas Unleash Hell

At a press conference like no other, Israel broadcast footage that bore testament to an ancient hatred. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Qatar’s War for Young American Minds

The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

On Double Standards and Deafening Silence

A Nazi sympathizer at The New York Times. Listening to voices from Gaza. Plus: Larry Hogan, Shaun King, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Day the Delusions Died

A mass awakening from the woke slumber? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Day the Delusions Died

Many people woke up on October 7 as liberals and went to bed as conservatives. What has changed? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Sweet Glee of Schadenfreude

Clive James describes the devilishly delightful feeling of seeing another author fail. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Long Road to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Plus: a 3,100-mile race to transcendence. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

The Long, Strange, Beautiful Road to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

My father-in-law and my late husband, both accomplished actors, wished for a time when Hollywood would make movies about real Native Americans. Now my daughter is living it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago