A new series for people who don’t want plastic in their water or bugs on their plate. | Continue reading
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
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
Preacher-poet John Donne gave voice to his faith with a sermon on how God will raise the dead. | Continue reading
A conversation with Paul Kingsnorth on living freely in “the age of the machine,” and the meaning of Easter. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
At least 50 U.S. universities have been sued for Jew-hatred on campus since October 7. Will it solve the problem? | Continue reading
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
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
Why did New York Magazine just run 8,000 words on the podcaster’s sex life? | Continue reading
Crashing planes. An ousted CEO. What the hell happened to America’s aviation gem? | Continue reading
A new TikTok trend promises that millennials will age about as gracefully as they’ve done everything else. | Continue reading
Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage. | Continue reading
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
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
Is the SAT getting easier? | Continue reading
Elite schools have reintroduced standardized testing—but does a new, all-digital exam mean standards will slip? | Continue reading
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
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
Don’t miss our special three-part audio documentary report from the front lines of the war. | Continue reading
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
Kat Rosenfield on the Kavanaugh accuser’s new book, ‘One Way Back,’ and peak #MeToo. | Continue reading
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
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
The Gray Lady’s top brass has lost patience with the newsroom activists. But will their crackdown work? Eli Lake investigates. | Continue reading
Self-caring ourselves to death. Why Florida just banned lab-grown meat. Neuralink’s breakthrough. And much more. | Continue reading
Today, we close out the Israel series with a conversation with the journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, who is one of the most important and insightful writers of our time on Israel and the Middle East. We talk about many things, including: the uncertain future for Israelis, for Palestin … | Continue reading
The latest venture from the Duchess of Montecito? Sussex Goop. | Continue reading
Is the conservative war on lab-cultivated meat a matter of protecting consumers, protecting the beef lobby, or just owning the libs? | Continue reading
Thanks to the internet, there are fancy names for old-fashioned laziness. | Continue reading
Jay Bhattacharya talks to The Free Press about taking his fight for First Amendment rights to the Supreme Court. | Continue reading
Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is getting tough. Not tough enough, according to these Chicagoans. | Continue reading
Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Joe Nocera debate D.A. Henderson and America’s response to the pandemic. | Continue reading
Don’t demonize rural whites. The Chicago voters backing Trump. Ten stories we’re reading, and more. | Continue reading
A new study of ‘White Rural Rage’ is built on shoddy data—and is typical of progressive contempt for the ‘bigoted’ and ‘undemocratic’ countryside. | Continue reading
‘I walked around every day at work policing my own actions and language.’ Google’s culture is broken, former employees tell The Free Press. Can it be fixed? | Continue reading
I was at the first launch of Starship. One year and three launches later, let me tell you about what it means for the future—and for America. | Continue reading
Our correspondent sets out across the country to find out why we’re so divided. What he discovers might surprise you. Introducing: Ben Meets America! | Continue reading
In 2006, Christopher Hitchens gave a brave, ‘blasphemous’ speech on Islam that resonates with even greater power today. | Continue reading
Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic. | Continue reading
The ACLU gets uncivil. Biden goes rogue and Shaun King goes Muslim. Trump flip-flops on TikTok. Elon Musk and Don Lemon go kaput. And much more. | Continue reading
When we went to Israel, we tried tirelessly to get into Gaza but Israel’s counteroffensive made it impossible for us to go to the strip during those days. Instead, we spent time in and around the West Bank. First, we went to the Qalandia checkpoint, one of the biggest in Israel, … | Continue reading
‘I was racing Olympic gold medalists and I was changing in a storage closet. My privacy and safety were being violated in the locker room.’ | Continue reading
An off-Broadway musical rehashes the story of disgraced journalist Stephen Glass. Enough already, says Joe Nocera. | Continue reading