Two new TV dating reality shows are uncomfortable, awkward, and embarrassing. In other words, they’re everything that falling in love is supposed to be. | Continue reading
Republicans embrace anarchy. Biden builds a ‘barrier.’ The CCP deserves our sympathy. So do Ukrainian Nazis. Plus, I insist. . . I still like Newsom. | Continue reading
The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America. | Continue reading
The political icon is unplugged and unleashed on Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris and much more. | Continue reading
The polling guru on why RFK Jr.’s independent run isn’t necessarily bad for Biden. Plus, the Ragin’ Cajun on Honestly. | Continue reading
Third-party runs are unpredictable. But polls show that Trump supporters think more favorably of Kennedy. | Continue reading
Listen now (64 mins) | James Carville, America’s best-known Democratic political consultant, has been on the scene for a very long time and has worked on just about a thousand campaigns—he’s almost 80. But his most prominent victory was Bill Clinton’s succ … | Continue reading
Priests, porn stars, and 1,600 Free Pressers walk into a theater. . . | Continue reading
Progressives can still succeed if they call out nonsense, focus on class, and start to talk like human beings again, argues Freddie deBoer in an excerpt from his new book. | Continue reading
Immediately before a fatal duel, Shakespeare’s Hamlet gives a speech that echoes through the ages. | Continue reading
I’m black. Country music is supposedly white. But this summer my father and I reveled in the sounds of the South. | Continue reading
Trump is a person of faith. RFK Jr. is a 9/11 truther. NYC turns MAGA. Plus, I must confess. . . I really like Gavin Newsom. | Continue reading
Listen now (52 mins) | On Wednesday night, Fox Business and Rumble hosted the second Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in beautiful Simi Valley, California. Bari Weiss and The Free Press’s very own Peter Savodnik watched live in the sp … | Continue reading
The Canadian prime minister has alienated the largest democracy on Earth and played host to a former Nazi. And that was just this week. | Continue reading
With Trump running away with the primary and thousands of miles from the stage, seven candidates tried to break through. | Continue reading
Letters from the prominent social scientist and the head of TED. | Continue reading
How the Iranian regime insinuated itself into official Washington. | Continue reading
Watch now (13 mins) | The organization’s tagline is “ideas worth spreading.” But they attempted to suppress mine. | Continue reading
Susan Collins is threatening to show up in a bikini. Josh Hawley is in jeans. But there’s a group of teenage Senate staffers whose dress code remains strict as ever. | Continue reading
Hasan Minhaj won over progressives by playing the victim. | Continue reading
W. B. Yeats celebrates the beauty and the naivete of ‘a child dancing in the wind.’ | Continue reading
Most Americans say yes. But Frank Foer, who wrote a book on the president’s first two years in office, claims his advanced age is a plus. | Continue reading
Depending on who you ask, the comedian is either a criminal or a martyr. The least popular position of all is that we should wait for the courts to decide. | Continue reading
Americans are tired of politics. Senators are sick of suits. Right-wingers give up on war. Rupert Murdoch passes the baton. Plus, Lauren Boebert gets felt up on Broadway. | Continue reading
Listen now (72 mins) | As we tumble toward 2024, anxiety among Democrats is beginning to simmer. It’s easy to understand why. Just look at what happened last week: Biden was giving a press conference in Vietnam about upgrading the country’s diplomatic ties when he sta … | Continue reading
In a city where religion is dead, the young search for a higher power—in a sauna with Diplo. | Continue reading
Female starvation as spectacle has a very long history. But now ‘thinfluencers’ have millions of followers. | Continue reading
America is already beholden to China for antibiotics, lithium batteries, and 5G equipment. Now they are cornering the market on an important technology used in self-driving vehicles. | Continue reading
Jenny Joseph’s ‘Warning’ is one of the most popular poems ever written—for good reason. | Continue reading
Listen now (82 mins) | In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war broke out in Israel. The Yom Kippur War would become the bloodiest in Israel’s young history—and Cohen was there to witness it. As the war broke out … | Continue reading
One year after the killing of a young woman in police custody, Iranians—rich and poor, male and female—refuse to give up the fight, writes Masih Alinejad. | Continue reading
Hunter’s smoking gun. JFK’s magic bullets. Aliens in Mexico. Disappearing books in Toronto. Plus, Taylor Swift saves journalism. | Continue reading
Boomers who fought for legalization have no idea how dangerous it is. | Continue reading
Young men today feel they must be six feet tall, make six figures, and have six inches downstairs to get a girlfriend—so many have given up trying. | Continue reading
Watch now (4 mins) | Ben Kawaller went to learn about life under utopia. But when the socialists kicked him out, a group of optimistic capitalists took him in. | Continue reading
A story about the prison that will never close. The men who became artists inside it. And some uncomfortable truths about America. | Continue reading
Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that science cannot function without free speech. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reflects on a victory for himself—and every American. | Continue reading
Poet Thom Gunn found his greatest—and most harrowing—subject in the AIDS epidemic. | Continue reading
Unionization is sweeping the nation, with some unlikely faces leading the charge—from Hollywood actors to superstar athletes. | Continue reading
Our feeble leaders. Obama’s ‘gay lover.’ Burning Man flames out. A Dem police defunder turns defender. Plus, a perfectly reasonable solution to NYC’s migrant crisis. | Continue reading
The press loved reporting that the desert bacchanal was hell. But my first Burn was sublime—and a splendid place to accept a proposal. | Continue reading
This publication began with a question: do Americans still want real journalism? Nearly 450,000 of you are answering: yes. | Continue reading
I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like. That’s not the way science should work. | Continue reading
Lessons in resilience from an American who lived nearly half the history of the United States. | Continue reading
Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’ | Continue reading
There is something worth admiring in the reckless kids who stand on top of moving trains. | Continue reading
After seven years of fighting, Joe Kennedy—who was benched for praying on the 50-yard line after high school football games—speaks to TFP on the eve of his comeback. | Continue reading
Ruby LaRocca—the winner of our high school essay contest—urges her generation to read old books, memorize poems, and invite senior citizens to parties. | Continue reading