Polygamy is in. DeSantis and #MeToo are out. Plus, conservatives save an anarchist coffee shop. | Continue reading
That’s the big reveal in the 306-page Durham report. | Continue reading
For those of you who missed last night's Zoom with Peter Savodnik, Rupa Subramanya, Nadia Robinson, Danardo Jones, and Ryan Handlarski. | Continue reading
In 1948, a handful of Jews performed an act of political resurrection when they re-established a state in the land of Israel. Daniel Gordis asks: Has it fulfilled its founders’ dreams? | Continue reading
Listen now (96 min) | Seventy-five years ago this week, the Jewish community of Palestine (known as the yishuv) gathered in the art museum of Tel Aviv—then a city of less than 200,000 inhabitants—in order to perform a resurrection. Thirty-seven people—36 men and … | Continue reading
‘They are training people who will not be able to see half the population as human beings who need compassionate treatment.’ | Continue reading
Join FP reporters and sources for an exclusive conversation about an approach to criminal justice poised to reshape our legal system. | Continue reading
Many of the people who argued vehemently against giving men the benefit of the doubt during MeToo now expect women to shrug off menacing men on the subway. | Continue reading
At the national Hebrew Bible Quiz, kids try to answer questions even rabbis don’t know. ‘Yeah,’ says one 12-year-old, ‘it’s nerdy.’ | Continue reading
As C. Day Lewis wrote for his own son, ‘love is proved in the letting go.’ | Continue reading
I spent years desperately trying to solve the mystery of my son’s illness. A chance encounter with another mother changed my life—and is now poised to change his. | Continue reading
The ‘pariah of Silicon Valley’ on China, TikTok, AI, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, Florida and California, God, new moonshots, and how to make America great again. | Continue reading
Trump & Tucker are baaack. The Bidens make bank. George Santos finally gets busted. Plus, the culture war over Cleopatra. | Continue reading
Listen now (76 min) | A few years ago, writer and cartoonist Tim Urban started becoming troubled by what he saw going on in the world around him. He noticed that while technology was progressing in unbelievable ways—people were going to space on private rocket ships and com … | Continue reading
Capitalism’s brutal lessons for BuzzFeed, Vice, Gawker. And: Will Tucker Carlson’s Twitter bet pay off? | Continue reading
Comics like Dave Chappelle and Roseanne Barr are free to do ‘third rail stand-up’ at Rogan’s new club. ‘We don’t do it as an alternative to comedy. We do it because that is comedy,’ he tells The FP. | Continue reading
Treating your wife like an indentured servant is not conservative, writes Bethany Mandel. It’s abusive. | Continue reading
Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing. | Continue reading
Stephen Spender was not a great poet. But he came close to greatness when he wrote about those who were. | Continue reading
Britain’s monarch, the 40th to be crowned at Westminster Abbey since William the Conqueror in 1066, travels with his own bed and toilet seat. | Continue reading
Goodbye and good luck to Vice, Steven Crowder, and late night. Plus, the stone of scone, the strike of the scribes, and much more. | Continue reading
The only question is: will we learn how to live in moving history? | Continue reading
DEI in our med schools, trauma in psychiatry: two stories explore the sabotage of science. | Continue reading
Listen now (81 min) | Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first outside investor) to Gawker (he successfully conspired to put the website out of business) and, of course, to Trump (he threw his support behind the nomi … | Continue reading
‘I spent over 50 years as a physician and educator at Penn Med. Now I’m using civil rights legislation to protect the profession—and American patients.’ | Continue reading
The alluring, but spurious, notion that all our problems stem from childhood has infiltrated our society. | Continue reading
With antisemitic hate crimes on the rise, Orthodox Jewish women are packing heat to defend their communities. | Continue reading
Calling all High Schoolers! We want to hear from you. | Continue reading
A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution. | Continue reading
The song from the poet’s play ‘Cymbeline’ inspires both joy—and sorrow. | Continue reading
In observance of National Pet Month, one curmudgeon contemplates what it means to raise living things. | Continue reading
The dish on Fox. The dirt on baby diapers. Swim classes wade into the culture wars. Plus: Ron DeSantis, Zooey Zephyr, Randi Weingarten, and RFK Jr. | Continue reading
The online gambling industry is profiting off addiction ‘the same way the Sackler family profited off of opioids.’ Only this time the pushers include state governments. | Continue reading
Listen now (70 min) | Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Now, this application is used daily by over 100 million users, and some of those people use it more often than Google. … | Continue reading
Berlin’s decision to shut down its last three nuclear reactors is a disaster, and all the smug tweets in the world can’t paper over that. | Continue reading
By abandoning its old standards and appealing to more selfish ends, the military has exposed itself to the likes of Jack Teixeira. | Continue reading
Eric Adams talks crime, reviving the blue-collar Democrat brand, and why Gotham will never be the next San Francisco. | Continue reading
Mary Harrington once believed that individual liberty is the highest good. Then she got pregnant. | Continue reading
Legendary bad boy, the Earl of Rochester, wrote sex-fueled verse designed to shock. | Continue reading
A conversation with Jonathan Rosen about his magnificent new book ‘The Best Minds.’ | Continue reading
Murdoch blows a near-billion. Budweiser gets the wrong buzz. Eco-maniacs nuke green energy in Germany. Plus, all the places you TGIF! | Continue reading
‘I was willing to do almost anything to save my son. But I did not want to die.’ | Continue reading
Watch now (46 min) | The democratization of birth—surrogacy for the everyman—is on the way. The question is, are we ready for it? | Continue reading
A screenwriter on the upcoming strike. The most important natural resource in the world. Plus: a Putin critic shows us how to live in truth—even from inside a Russian cage. | Continue reading
Listen now (100 min) | Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor. Michael Laudor was, by all accounts, a genius. Maybe even a prodigy. Academically, he excelled beyond belief. Things that are hard fo … | Continue reading
A Russian dissident’s final speech as he faces 25 years in prison. | Continue reading
It’s not oil or eggs or toilet paper—but something far more precious. | Continue reading