Biden’s out. Kamala leans into the meme. Cheatle quits. The sharks are on cocaine. CrowdStrike has a CrowdStroke. The Olympics are here! J.D. Vance’s couch. And much, much more. | Continue reading
Running with another white male who speaks fluent Rust Belt doesn’t give Trump an edge against Kamala. | Continue reading
The VP missed an important opportunity to show Americans where she stands on Israel. | Continue reading
Media gaslighting on Kamala the border czar. Hate on the streets of Washington. Does Trump have buyer’s remorse over J.D. Vance? And much more. | Continue reading
Most of the media-verse right now is focused on a handful of serious and important questions: Kamala’s VP pick, if Democrats have been anti-Democratic, if Kamala can receive Biden’s campaign money without a legal battle. And whether or not China will see the opportunity of our la … | Continue reading
In the story we’re telling about the assassination attempt, the villain is a fumbling bureaucrat—not the man who pulled the trigger. | Continue reading
The press rewrites recent history to accommodate the current political environment. | Continue reading
Did the Trump shooting really give him ‘moral authority’? And three dogs take a road trip—with a human. | Continue reading
It’s a chance for Biden to prove he’s still compos mentis, and a chance for his VP to prove she’s a proper statesperson. | Continue reading
Instead of trying to bridge the divide, both candidates are leaning into this battle of the sexes, otherwise known as the 2024 election. | Continue reading
A panel of peers has recommended Joe Gow lose his tenured job for making porn with his wife. Joe Gow fights on. | Continue reading
The great gold rush of 2024. Bibi goes to Washington. Get your tickets for the next live Free Press debate. And much more. | Continue reading
Costco can’t keep bars in stock. They sell it by the gram in vending machines in Korea. “There’s something about gold that hacks us.” | Continue reading
Zoomers might see it as a compliment, but the VP should’ve thought twice about embracing Charli XCX’s endorsement. | Continue reading
Tyler Cowen and Katherine Mangu-Ward face off against David Leonhardt and Bhaskar Sunkara on September 10 in Washington, D.C. | Continue reading
Kimberly Cheatle was grilled by representatives yesterday. It was Claudine Gay–level bad. | Continue reading
We haven't seen Joe Biden for days. No wonder conspiracy theories are flying. | Continue reading
Biden staffers found out he was stepping down the same way as the rest of us. This is a point of no return. | Continue reading
When will Biden address the country? The grilling of Kimberly Cheatle. The rise of the KHive. And much more. | Continue reading
The United States locks up nearly two million people, the highest number of prisoners for any country in the world. That represents about 20 percent of the world’s prison population, even though the U.S. makes up only around 5 percent of the global population. | Continue reading
Within 24 hours, the voters deciding the party’s nominee went from ‘very shocked’ over Joe’s exit to ‘very happy’ with their new queen: Kamala. | Continue reading
Why do we have a crisis of trust? Because the experts keep lying. Joe Biden is only the latest example. | Continue reading
When her husband decided not to seek reelection, the First Lady made a statement. It included no words. | Continue reading
The media. Donald Trump. The president’s recently convicted son. Who’s benefited from Joe’s decision? The answers may surprise you. | Continue reading
The winners and losers of Biden’s historic decision. Will memes decide this election? Tim Dillon. And much, much more. | Continue reading
Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee. After weeks of speculation, criticism of his candidacy, concern about his health, and withdrawal of donors, President Biden finally said | Continue reading
For the last week, Republicans have been prepping for a showdown with the vice president. Peter Savodnik reports. | Continue reading
She needs to gain voters’ trust, unify the party, and prove she can compete in Pennsylvania. After all that, she still has a steep hill to climb. | Continue reading
We were on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reporting history as it unfolded. | Continue reading
This week, Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination at the RNC. Barry Goldwater did the same thing sixty years ago—and the speech was his downfall. | Continue reading
One maple syrup maker’s pursuit of sappiness. | Continue reading
After graduating high school during Covid, it was hard to see a path. That’s when I decided to hike 2,193 miles. | Continue reading
Creating maple syrup can quickly become an obsession, warns sugarmaker Peter Gregg. | Continue reading
I had a blissful 20 minutes of maternity leave before I heard the words “Trump’s been shot.” | Continue reading
I’m a major donor to the Democratic Party. Only one strategy can rescue the Dems: an open convention. | Continue reading
For the past few decades, it’s been conventional wisdom in D.C. that “demographics are destiny.” That the increased share of immigrants, young people, and racial minorities across the country would build a bulletproof coalition for the Democratic Party, swelling their ranks and k … | Continue reading
Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school. | Continue reading
Certain conservatives don't want to see Hindus and Sikhs at the RNC. But they'd better get used to it. | Continue reading
Biden has Covid, ‘how rednecks like me see J.D. Vance,’ a party without guardrails, the influencers at the RNC, and much more. | Continue reading
At the RNC, I noticed that the border separating reality and unreality, acceptable versus unacceptable opinion, has dissolved. | Continue reading
With his bleach-blond hair and ‘very left wing’ upbringing, Xaviaer Durousseau is an unlikely Republican. But what matters are principles, he tells The Free Press. | Continue reading
After Mitt Romney got walloped in 2012, the party’s brain trust warned the GOP it was losing the minority vote. Trump solved that problem by ignoring their advice. | Continue reading
I grew up ‘white trash.’ I’d never air out my family’s dirty laundry like Trump’s veep pick, writes River Page. | Continue reading
Members fear a resolution vote next week could encourage teachers to portray Israel as “a colonizing country committing genocide.” | Continue reading
A true-crime thriller that reads like a novel. A classic novel that eerily echoes it. Join River Page next week to discuss Southern Gothic. | Continue reading
Martin Gurri on Biden. Silicon Valley goes MAGA. An Iranian assassination plot. The Taliban v. climate change. And much more. | Continue reading
For both the king and what was once his court, a terrible reckoning has arrived. | Continue reading
When he tilted his head at precisely the right moment to cheat death, the man became a myth. | Continue reading