The Free Press For You feed is built around you, and it lives only in the app. | Continue reading
In today’s Front Page: What happened to millennials? Maya Sulkin gets the scoop on ‘The New York Times’. Joe Nocera talks to Garry Kasparov. Bari Weiss talks to Simon Sebag Montefiore. And more. | Continue reading
Adults who do not have children are taking over Disneyland, purchasing the majority of Toys“R”Us products, and sleeping with stuffed bears, writes Kat Rosenfield. Why can’t they put childish things away? | Continue reading
A former employee who spent a decade inside the newsroom says she repeatedly flagged slanted coverage, watched complaints go nowhere, and finally decided to take her concerns public, Maya Sulkin reports. | Continue reading
The Middle East has dominated the American mind, shaped our foreign policy, and become a fixture of Western discourse. So why do we still misunderstand so much of the region? | Continue reading
Once upon a time, picture books told children’s stories. Then parents decided they were the main audience, writes Jacob Savage. | Continue reading
Today in TGIF: Kids riot from Paris to Ithaca, Mamdani’s first October 7 anniversary as mayor, golden statues, Satanic prayers, and more! | Continue reading
Watch now (34 mins) | Suzy and Dan salute Alix Earle for never reading a book. Plus: pangolin borscht and Chinese double agents. | Continue reading
Michael Cadenazzi is the man tasked with reviving America’s weapons production capacity. He explains how the Pentagon is investing billions to save the defense industry. | Continue reading
Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion turned leading Russian dissident, has spent years warning the West about Putin. Now, he’s being targeted by an alleged Russian assassination plot. | Continue reading
The departure of U.S. bombers from Britain may be a final warning to European leaders with no interest in fighting back against enemies of the West, writes Douglas Murray. | Continue reading
Last year, Joe Sweeny was an anonymous lawyer. Now, radicalized by Mayor Mamdani, he has built a huge audience fighting back for the city he loves. | Continue reading
Her much older boyfriend is ‘one of the highest quality men I've ever known.’ But a 29-year-old reader met a younger man in Peru who ‘flipped my world upside down.’ Our advice columnist Abigail Shrier weighs in. | Continue reading
Looking for ways to understand this strange-and-getting-stranger century? Meet our new columnist. | Continue reading
In today’s Front Page: Cornell’s culture clash. The AI boss who is dangerously relaxed. What is Russia hiding about a deadly plague outbreak? Canada’s assisted suicide reversal. Mamdani disgraces himself on October 7. And more. | Continue reading
After a mysterious plague death in Siberia, former arms control envoy Marshall Billingslea explains what Russia could be building, how it might use it, and why China is following suit. | Continue reading
In a statement marking the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust, New York’s mayor showed his true colors, writes Eli Lake. | Continue reading
Mental illness will not be allowed as the sole reason for medical assistance in dying, but Carney’s government wants to make it easier to get advance approval, writes Rupa Subramanya. | Continue reading
From feminist porn awards to guides on group sex, Cornell has promoted sexual liberation as a virtue. The school owes families an explanation, writes Jared Lederman. | Continue reading
Fraternity brothers who never set foot at Cornell are facing threats, harassment, and public scorn. To the online mob, belonging to the same national fraternity as the accused is crime enough, report Frannie Block and Madeleine Long. | Continue reading
Nvidia’s CEO says ‘there’s a zero percent chance’ AI ends the world and that companies can police themselves, writes Patrick McGee. Even his admiring biographer calls that a ‘libertarian fantasy.’ | Continue reading
Saritha Komatireddy hopes that New York City’s dysfunction of homelessness, subway violence, and locked-up store shelves will help her topple Letitia James, one of Trump’s biggest enemies, writes Josh Code. | Continue reading
The negotiations had dragged on for nearly a year. Then, with just weeks left in the Biden administration, Brett McGurk joined forces with Steve Witkoff to make one last push to bring the hostages home. | Continue reading
Three years after the attacks, Douglas Murray, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Tony Blair, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Polina Fradkin, Avinatan Or, and others reflect on that day and its consequences. | Continue reading
Three years after October 7, Gaza lies devastated, Israeli attitudes have hardened, and the movement claiming to champion Palestinians still refuses to reckon with Hamas’s role in the catastrophe. | Continue reading
Avinatan Or was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7. In this exclusive excerpt from his memoir, Or details his years spent in the tunnels under Gaza. | Continue reading
The return of the last hostages brought Israelis a sense of relief, but not closure. Three years after October 7, survivors and their families are still learning how to live with what happened. | Continue reading
I’ve taught at the university for 48 years. After I documented the harassment Jewish students faced after October 7, the administration told me to stick to supply chains and threatened my funding. | Continue reading
A new book gripping the American left repeats every stale falsehood and exaggeration about Israel’s war against Hamas. | Continue reading
As a teenager, I watched the old frameworks we once used to understand rape buckle in a post–sexual revolution world. The case of the Cornell 7 feels like the logical end point. | Continue reading
If you care about the future of the UK and the future of the Holy Land: Pay attention. | Continue reading
In the latest This Week in Canada newsletter: Why Quebec separatism is back even though it is unpopular; an American think tank gives us the scaries; and more, writes Rupa Subramanya. | Continue reading
Tyler Cowen sticks up for the effective altruists. Martin Gurri and James Kirchick on the rise of Europe’s radical right—and the establishment’s reaction. And more. | Continue reading
The former Israeli ambassador on Israel’s deepening domestic divide, and why no Israeli government will bring the troops home from Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria. | Continue reading
Olivia Reingold reports from Ithaca, where activists vandalized a campus building and students are protesting what they say is now known as a ‘rape school.’ | Continue reading
The populist parties rising in the polls offer little to improve on the failed elites they’re trying to replace, writes James Kirchick. | Continue reading
Sound philosophies often come from strange places, and a little Bay Area rationalism would improve our ethics in several ways, writes Tyler Cowen. | Continue reading
Leaders from London to Berlin are using Russian aggression as an excuse to delegitimize the right-wing parties challenging their grip on power, writes Martin Gurri. | Continue reading
The hosts of ’Pod Save America’ have built a media juggernaut—and are using it to channel a new progressive rage, writes Peter Savodnik. | Continue reading
The ‘gas station heroin’ hooking Gen Z ‘oops addicts.’ Why France is burning. And more. | Continue reading
Watch now (101 mins) | Israel’s leaders hated one another. They fought a war anyway. Elliot Kaufman takes Coleman Hughes inside the room where it happened. | Continue reading
What began as a protest over poor schools has become a nationwide wave of blockades, fires, and clashes with police. Behind the chaos is a calculated strategy from the far-left’s presidential hopeful, writes Simone Rodan-Benzaquen. | Continue reading
Yigal Carmon warned of ‘possible war’ less than six weeks before Hamas attacked Israel. Now, in a new report, he lays out the signs that were missed in more detail than ever, writes Jay Solomon. | Continue reading
Sally Satel on why a federal panel recommended the suspension of psychology’s top accreditor. | Continue reading
It’s easy to start drinking Feel Free, sold as a ‘social tonic’ in over 30,000 stores, writes Josh Code. But it can be so hard to stop that withdrawal is ‘absolutely comparable’ to heroin, says someone who used both. | Continue reading
In today’s Weekend Press: Caitlin Flanagan on the ‘Cornell Seven.’ Taylor Swift, what went wrong? Marie Gluesenkamp Perez tells us there’s more than one way to be a Democrat. It’s time to read ‘East of Eden.’ And more! | Continue reading
Women know that fraternity houses are dangerous places—and yet they go anyway, writes Caitlin Flanagan. | Continue reading
As Netflix brings John Steinbeck’s 1952 classic to a new generation, Free Press Book Club moderator Michele McAloon reflects on what ‘East of Eden’ teaches us about family, forgiveness, and free will. | Continue reading