Naked Attraction, The Golden Bachelor, and the Novelty of Vulnerability

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

TGIF: Gaetz Crasher

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Two Murders—and the Cost of Luxury Beliefs

The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

James Carville Says Wokeness ‘Is Over’ and 2024 Will Be ‘Dangerous.’

The political icon is unplugged and unleashed on Trump, Biden, Kamala Harris and much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Today in The Free Press: Nate Silver and James Carville

The polling guru on why RFK Jr.’s independent run isn’t necessarily bad for Biden. Plus, the Ragin’ Cajun on Honestly. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Nate Silver: Why RFK Jr. Probably Doesn’t Hurt Biden

Third-party runs are unpredictable. But polls show that Trump supporters think more favorably of Kennedy. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

James Carville Says Wokeness “Is Over,” 2024 Will Be “Dangerous”—and Much More from the Democratic Political Icon

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

How to Watch Our Sold-Out Debate. The First of Many.

Priests, porn stars, and 1,600 Free Pressers walk into a theater. . . | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: Showing Strength in the Face of Death

Immediately before a fatal duel, Shakespeare’s Hamlet gives a speech that echoes through the ages. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Country Music and Me: My Great Migration in the Wrong Direction

I’m black. Country music is supposedly white. But this summer my father and I reveled in the sounds of the South. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

TGIF: The Book of Revelations

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

We're All "a Little Bit Dumber": A Night Among GOP Hopefuls

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Justin Trudeau’s Self-Immolation

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


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Live from Simi Valley: A Hot Mess of a Debate

With Trump running away with the primary and thousands of miles from the stage, seven candidates tried to break through. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Adam Grant and Chris Anderson Respond to Coleman Hughes

Letters from the prominent social scientist and the head of TED. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Inside Iran’s Influence Operation

How the Iranian regime insinuated itself into official Washington. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?

Watch now (13 mins) | The organization’s tagline is “ideas worth spreading.” But they attempted to suppress mine. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 11 months ago

If John Fetterman Can Wear Shorts, Why Not the Senate Pages?

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

The Lies of Trauma Merchants

Hasan Minhaj won over progressives by playing the victim. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Fleeting Innocence of Youth

W. B. Yeats celebrates the beauty and the naivete of ‘a child dancing in the wind.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Weekend Listening: Is Biden Too Old to Be President?

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

The Russell Brand Rorschach Test

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

TGIF: Ennui the People

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Is Biden Too Old to Be President? Frank Foer Isn't Sure.

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


@thefp.com | 12 months ago

Can You Find God in a Bikini?

In a city where religion is dead, the young search for a higher power—in a sauna with Diplo. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Watching Girls Die Online

Female starvation as spectacle has a very long history. But now ‘thinfluencers’ have millions of followers. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Is That a Spy in Your Car?

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: Facing Old Age with Defiance

Jenny Joseph’s ‘Warning’ is one of the most popular poems ever written—for good reason. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Replay: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why the Murder of Mahsa Amini Could Lead to Revolution

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Stranger Things

Hunter’s smoking gun. JFK’s magic bullets. Aliens in Mexico. Disappearing books in Toronto. Plus, Taylor Swift saves journalism. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

You Can Be Addicted to Weed. I Was When I Was 12.

Boomers who fought for legalization have no idea how dangerous it is. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Dating Pool Dropouts

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

VIDEO: The Free Press Meets the Democratic Socialists of America

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Gitmo Turned Its Inmates into Artists. Now, They Want to Send a Message.

A story about the prison that will never close. The men who became artists inside it. And some uncomfortable truths about America. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: An Elegy for a Young Man

Poet Thom Gunn found his greatest—and most harrowing—subject in the AIDS epidemic. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Are NFL Running Backs the New Face of America’s Labor Movement?

Unionization is sweeping the nation, with some unlikely faces leading the charge—from Hollywood actors to superstar athletes. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

TGIF: Free the Elders!

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Apocalypse Not: I Got Engaged in the Mud at Burning Man

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Why The Free Press Exists, in Three Stories

This publication began with a question: do Americans still want real journalism? Nearly 450,000 of you are answering: yes. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Wit and Wisdom of a 109-Year-Old Man

Lessons in resilience from an American who lived nearly half the history of the United States. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Things Worth Remembering: One Equal Temper of Heroic Hearts

Lord Tennyson’s poem lauds the strength of human will ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

The Boys Who Surf Subways

There is something worth admiring in the reckless kids who stand on top of moving trains. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

Fresh off a Supreme Court Win, the Praying Coach Takes the Field

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago

A Constitution for Teenage Happiness

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


@thefp.com | 1 year ago