This week in The Weekend Press: A 103-year-old wellness guru spills her secret. Two drinks with the Christian leader who’s not sure ‘whether J.D. Vance is a true believer.’ Suzy Weiss has a podcast now! And more. | Continue reading
On this episode of ‘Second Thought’: Must Justin Bieber heal on stage? If you secretly invented Bitcoin, what would the signs be? Is $40 too much to pay for half a rotisserie chicken? | Continue reading
The professor was one of 15 Christian leaders who Anthropic asked to advise them on making AI moral. He told me why he declined, and said 'I honestly can’t tell whether J.D. Vance is a true believer.' | Continue reading
A 12th-century Japanese poem captures the paradox of nostalgia: We don’t miss the past as it was—we miss it as we remember it, writes Spencer Klavan. | Continue reading
I believe we are raising kids for adulthood, not childhood, and so we need to let them do things on their own, writes Anna Keating. Even the 7-year-olds. | Continue reading
Despite what a random mom online might say, you don’t have to martyr yourself to be a good mother, writes Kara Kennedy. | Continue reading
For 86 years, Deborah Szekely has run one of the most famous health spas in the world, Rancho La Puerta. At the age of 103, she’s ready to tell the story of how she did it. | Continue reading
'Second Thought' is a podcast now! And Suzy Weiss's first guest is the original YouTuber, Casey Neistat. | Continue reading
No, you aren’t being drafted. A chance at peace in Lebanon. A dark time for Britain’s Jews. And more. | Continue reading
A fragile peace has been declared in Lebanon, but it wasn’t negotiated between the two parties that were actually in conflict with one another, writes Eli Lake. | Continue reading
By ignoring the ideological reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, Klein treats Israelis and Palestinians as props in a Western morality play rather than actors in a high-stakes struggle for survival, writes Haviv Rettig Gur. | Continue reading
In this week's installment of This Week in Jew-Hate, the newsletter's editor, Josh Kaplan, writes about his experience with antisemitism in London—and why abandoning Britain would mean conceding that Jewish life in the diaspora has no future. | Continue reading
Tom Steyer goes hard in the paint, the father of SantaCon and the missing SantaBucks, World Liberty Financial gets accused of being an ATM, and Allbirds is now an AI company. | Continue reading
On this episode of ‘Second Thought,’ Suzy Weiss sits down with one of the most influential people in YouTube’s history. | Continue reading
An Israeli defense-tech founder explains how AI-powered drone swarms, born in gaming and sports tech, are reshaping modern warfare. | Continue reading
Many dictatorships have ended peacefully, so the end of Orbán’s rule in Hungary isn’t proof he was never really taking the country in an authoritarian direction, writes James Kirchick. | Continue reading
The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules—and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot, writes Nicholas Clairmont. | Continue reading
The recent drop in fertility has nothing to do with career women. But a different cohort is having many fewer children, writes Patrick T. Brown. | Continue reading
A former trainer of Navy dolphins explains to Madeleine Rowley how they might help rid the Strait of Hormuz of mines—and restore commercial shipping. | Continue reading
If a wife is unhappy, it might not be her husband’s fault; it might be because she’s human. That’s what a new show, ‘The Miniature Wife,’ accidentally proves, writes Kat Rosenfield. | Continue reading
As she plans her departure, Rep. Stefanik reflects on rifts over antisemitism, what she predicts is a coming ‘decline’ in New York, and what she sees as a socialist takeover of the Democratic Party. | Continue reading
The question of how the United States would respond to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not academic, writes Eyck Freymann. It is the whole thing. And the answer, at the moment, is: Nobody knows. | Continue reading
‘Should I respond to her and hear her side of the story? Or is trusting my husband enough?’ asks a happily married mother of three. Our advice columnist weighs in. | Continue reading
And could peace finally come to Israel’s northern border? | Continue reading
Andy Mills spoke to the man accused of trying to kill Sam Altman. The Democrats have a Hasan Piker problem. Will Trump use his leverage over Iran? Just how worried should we be about Anthropic’s Mythos model? And more. | Continue reading
Daniel Lubetzky of ‘Shark Tank’ talks about ‘Pirkei Avot.’ | Continue reading
Eli Lake joins Robert Wright on NonZero for a wide-ranging, and at times contentious, conversation on Iran, Israel, and the logic of the current war. | Continue reading
In January, Andy Mills interviewed Daniel Moreno-Gama about his AI fears. On Friday, Moreno-Gama was arrested for allegedly attempting to murder the CEO of OpenAI. | Continue reading
Anthropic says Mythos is so dangerous that the company is slowing its release. We asked Jared Kaplan why. | Continue reading
Trump has an opportunity to negotiate for the Iranian people, not just for a narrow deal with the regime on weapons, writes Eli Lake. | Continue reading
Anthropic's new AI can break into almost any computer system on Earth. Ryan Fedasiuk, who endured a state-sponsored cyberattack, explains how to protect yourself. | Continue reading
On the third anniversary of Sudan’s war, the bloody fight is turning into the scene for proxy fights between the likes of Iran, Russia, and other global bad actors, writes Mariam Wahba. | Continue reading
Democrats should go on Hasan Piker's show—and stand up for Democratic values, writes Peter Savodnik. | Continue reading
Critics rushed to call the AI meme depicting Trump as Jesus sacrilege. But the more likely explanation is simpler—and says more about online outrage than theology, writes Allie Beth Stuckey. | Continue reading
Will Rahn speaks with experts as he tries to make sense of the UFO phenomenon. This week: Journalist Michael Shellenberger. | Continue reading
From sightings to cover-ups, Michael Shellenberger lays out what’s real, what’s unclear, and why the mystery persists. | Continue reading
As Israel’s attorney general seeks to remove the controversial national security minister, could it make him more popular than ever? Amit Segal weighs the case. | Continue reading
As America turns 250, two founding funders deserve a place alongside the statesmen and generals. | Continue reading
By April 1776, North Carolinians were resolved to separate from Great Britain. | Continue reading
Why American colleges are going broke. The lesson from Viktor Orbán’s graceful exit. Is Trump’s blockade working? And more. | Continue reading
Maritime history and shipping expert Sal Mercogliano unpacks the latest developments in the Strait of Hormuz for The Free Press. | Continue reading
The Church advocates peace, but it isn’t pacifist. Eliminating a nuclear threat from a determined enemy is a noble reason to make war. | Continue reading
Over 15 percent of America’s colleges and universities have closed their doors since 2013. It’s a trend that’s only going to get worse. | Continue reading
The same pundits who think American democracy is dying have spent years insisting that Hungary is run by a dictator. But that man, Viktor Orbán, just lost an election—and is peacefully leaving power. | Continue reading
The OpenAI CEO’s home was targeted twice in one weekend. The internet wants more. | Continue reading
U.S. ships are making sure that if Iran won’t let world commerce pass freely through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian commerce can’t either, writes Aaron MacLean. Will this force Iran to stop negotiating and accept defeat? | Continue reading
The Court’s role isn’t to be popular—it’s to resist power. Trump’s attacks are giving it ample opportunity to do just that. | Continue reading
While negotiations behind the scenes continue with Lebanon, Israel stops for Yom HaShoah | Continue reading