Brazil vs. Elon Musk. ‘Civil War’ Is a Dud. Plus. . .

Why Matti Friedman got a gun. Amnesty’s terrorist love-in. Ten stories we're following. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 14 days ago

Matti Friedman: Why I Got a Gun

My Glock is an ugly little monument to the historic threat facing my family, my neighbors and all of Israel. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 15 days ago

Civil War: What Is It Good For?

Absolutely nothing. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 15 days ago

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 15 days ago

NPR Editor Speaks Out: How National Public Radio Lost Americans' Trust

Uri Berliner is a senior business editor at NPR. In his 25 years with NPR, his work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, a Gerald Loeb Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Society of Professional Journalists New America Award, among others. Today, we published in | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 15 days ago

Addiction Activists Say They’re ‘Reducing Harm’ in Philly. Locals Say They’re Causing It.

Addicts have turned a minority neighborhood into an open-air drug market. Residents blame the mostly white advocates for ‘destroying’ their community. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 16 days ago

Michael Walzer: ‘I Don’t Know If There Was Any Alternative’

Peter Savodnik spoke to political theorist Michael Walzer in October about whether Israel was fighting a just war in Gaza. With the fight now entering its seventh month, Peter called for an update. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 16 days ago

Eclipse Hysteria. Antiracism in the Maternity Ward. Plus. . .

Michael Walzer on Israel’s war, six months in. Suzy Weiss on marrying rich. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 16 days ago

Mass General Brigham Puts Antiracism Ahead of Their Patients’ Health

The new policy could compromise the well-being of black women and babies in the name of ‘equity,’ reports Sally Satel. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 17 days ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Biggest Threat to America’s Liberty

In 1858, Abraham Lincoln argued that our union could not survive unless we removed the ‘cancer’ that is slavery. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 17 days ago

The Prophets: Andrea Dworkin

Decades ago, the feminist warned of the damage that is done to both men and women living in a culture drenched in pornography. We live in that culture today. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 18 days ago

Lock Up Your Kids: The Eclipse Is Coming!

In a fit of absurd safetyism, schools are canceling class on April 8 because they’re scared pupils will look at the sun. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 19 days ago

TGIF: Happy Cesar Chavez Trans Visibility Easter Day

Hipsters for nuclear war. DJT International. Fight Club on BART. Stoning makes a comeback. Plus: Seattle schools drop algebra and Amazon’s magic tech is just 1,000 people in India. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 19 days ago

Gambling Is Ruining Sports

Scandals in baseball and the NBA are the latest signs that the prudes may have been right about sports betting, argues Joe Nocera. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 20 days ago

The Migrants Hoping for a Biden Victory. Plus. . .

Why gambling is ruining sports. Is Havana Syndrome a hoax? Ten stories. And more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 20 days ago

A Report from the Southern Border: ‘We Want Biden to Win’

Peter Savodnik on the crisis nobody wants to solve. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 21 days ago

WATCH: RFK Jr.’s Supporters Made Me Doubt the Truth

The latest installment of Ben Meets America is out now. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 21 days ago

Iran Vows Revenge. J.K. Rowling Says, ‘Arrest Me.’ Plus. . .

A tragedy in Gaza. RFK voters sound off. Ten stories we’re tracking. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 21 days ago

Iran Is Winning the War

Right now things look good for Israel. But the Islamic Republic is playing the long game. And its advantages, alas, are many. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 21 days ago

How Working Class Americans Became Second-Class Citizens

Blue-collar workers have been abandoned by both the Democrats and the Republicans. Batya Ungar-Sargon explains why. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 22 days ago

Welcome to Free Press Health

A new series for people who don’t want plastic in their water or bugs on their plate. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 22 days ago

How the Working Class Became America’s Second Class

On Election Night 2016, many of us thought we knew who would be the next president of the United States. We were blindsided when Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. Legacy media quickly scrambled to explain what had happened. They ultimately arrived at an explanation: Trump’s v … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 22 days ago

‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 23 days ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul

Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 24 days ago

WEEKEND LISTENING: Why an Eco-warrior Left the Movement—and Became a Christian

A conversation with Paul Kingsnorth on living freely in “the age of the machine,” and the meaning of Easter. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 25 days ago

The Prophets: Allan Bloom

Nearly 40 years ago, a University of Chicago professor warned that higher education was closing Americans’ minds. Today, he could be called the grandfather of our culture wars. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 25 days ago

TGIF: Make America Pray Again

Trump publishes the MAGA Bible. Kamala dances to the wrong tune. RFK Jr. hires Nicole Shanahan. NBC fires Ronna McDaniel. Plus, Candace Owens and much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 26 days ago

TamponGate. Babies in Bars. Plus. . .

Peter Savodnik on Evan Gershkovich’s year in Russian prison. Eli Lake on campus lunacy. RIP Joe Lieberman, Richard Serra, and Daniel Kahneman. And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 27 days ago

Why an Eco-warrior Left the Movement—and Became a Christian

If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, the current industrial revolution—the disruption of automation, information, the internet, and now AI—is transforming everything about the way we work, connect, and interact with t … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 27 days ago

Does Suing Colleges for Antisemitism Actually Work?

At least 50 U.S. universities have been sued for Jew-hatred on campus since October 7. Will it solve the problem? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 27 days ago

Tale of a Tampon

Scenes from a sit-in at Vanderbilt. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 28 days ago

365 Days in the Life of Evan Gershkovich

One year after the WSJ reporter was arrested for ‘espionage’ in Russia, his friends tell The Free Press he feels ‘deep responsibility’ for the country he loves. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 28 days ago

Boeing’s Dead Whistleblower Told the Truth

Joe Nocera reports. Plus: The hit job on Andrew Huberman, the middle-aged millennial meltdown, the Baltimore bridge collapse, P. Diddy, and much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 28 days ago

Who’s Afraid of Andrew Huberman?

Why did New York Magazine just run 8,000 words on the podcaster’s sex life? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 29 days ago

Boeing’s Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

Crashing planes. An ousted CEO. What the hell happened to America’s aviation gem? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 29 days ago

How Old Do I Look?

A new TikTok trend promises that millennials will age about as gracefully as they’ve done everything else. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 29 days ago

Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here’s How to Fix It.

Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 29 days ago

Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to Fix It.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been explaining the human condition to us better than anyone else. He first did it with his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, which explored why people were so passionately divided over politics a … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

Ben Meets The Lady Lowriders of California

In his latest dispatch from America, Free Press correspondent Ben Kawaller asks members of an all-female car club: What do you think of the patriarchy? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

The Classical School Revolution. The Lady Lowriders Club. Plus. . .

Is the SAT getting easier? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

The SAT Is Back. Or Is It?

Elite schools have reintroduced standardized testing—but does a new, all-digital exam mean standards will slip? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

Inside the New Wave of Old-School Education

Amid growing claims that schools indoctrinate students, ‘classical education’—which teaches kids to think critically and master old books—is making a comeback. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

Things Worth Remembering: RFK’s Tribute to a Slain Hero

Hours after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy called upon a crowd to find ‘wisdom through the awful grace of God.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

Binge Our Miniseries: The Free Press in Israel

Don’t miss our special three-part audio documentary report from the front lines of the war. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

The Prophets: Mary Ware Dennett

In the early 1900s, a mother fought to distribute sex education through the mail. The law that deemed her ‘obscene’ could deny women’s access to abortion today. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

The Christine Blasey Ford Fever Dream

Kat Rosenfield on the Kavanaugh accuser’s new book, ‘One Way Back,’ and peak #MeToo. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

Debate: Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?

A bill to force the sale of TikTok is heading to the Senate. Is it a national security must? Or a dangerous overreaction? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago

TGIF: Bloodbath & Beyond

Biden gains ground. Trump searches for cash. Ketanji Brown Jackson vs. the First Amendment. Plus: Elon Musk’s brain chip actually works! And much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 month ago