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
Plus: Ten stories we’re reading. | Continue reading
Ron Hassner says he isn’t leaving until his school agrees to take antisemitism and free speech seriously. We met him at hour 93. . . | Continue reading
From California to Florida, Latinos are turning their backs on Catholicism and embracing a new faith that’s changing the face of America. | Continue reading
Members of the nation’s oldest legal union are attacking the pro-Israel voices in their ranks. Now Congress is investigating. | Continue reading
Plus: The curious case of the missing princess. | Continue reading
Prohibitionists like to blame legal cannabis for everything from rising crime to our national mental health dilemma. The truth is just the opposite, argues Katherine Mangu-Ward. | Continue reading
Advocates promised decriminalizing marijuana would cure all our problems, write William P. Barr and John P. Walters. Instead, we’re a nation of addicts. | Continue reading
Mike Gallagher talks to The Free Press about Trump’s flip-flop and the war in Washington over the Chinese-owned app. | Continue reading
A debate on immigration—in Texas—that you won’t want to miss. | Continue reading
A free society is only as strong as the citizens willing to defend it. Reflections and videos from my time on the ground in Israel. | Continue reading
A conversation about kids and mental health prompted some interesting responses from Honestly listeners. We want to share a few of them with you. | Continue reading
Peter Savodnik on whether Joe Biden will really be the nominee. Plus: Matti Friedman on the Biden-Bibi bust-up. | Continue reading
Party insiders have one final hope: that Biden will drop his reelection bid so a new nominee (Whitmer? Newsom? The Rock?) can ascend in August. | Continue reading
The Free Press reviews the ten films up for Best Picture. | Continue reading
In his 1939 sermon at Oxford, ‘Learning in Wartime,’ C.S. Lewis reminded his audience that by forging ahead in the worst of times, we can touch the divine. | Continue reading
The 1960s civil rights hero, who was sidelined because he was gay, predicted the rise of identity politics and affirmative action—and how they would divide us today. | Continue reading
Biden looked spritely. Trump is back on the ballot. Kathy Hochul sends in the troops. The Houthis keep bombing. TikTok is mad. Plus: Rupert Murdoch gets engaged. | Continue reading
In a deserted border town, I listened to the reigning genius of Israeli pop blast his songs toward Gaza. | Continue reading
Cash for kids to attend social justice seminars. Plus: Listen now to the first episode of our audio documentary, ‘The Free Press in Israel.’ | Continue reading
A California activist group is using taxpayer money to reward teens for learning how to fight for ‘racial justice.’ | Continue reading
What happens when a country has to ask its citizens the unthinkable: What are you willing to die for? It’s a question that feels so outside the current American experience. When was the last time you asked yourself, What would I do if I had to fight for my home, my family, … | Continue reading
The Trump challenger has dropped out. Some donors | Continue reading
Our next debate on immigration policy is coming up in Dallas on April 11! | Continue reading
Trump and Biden might not debate. But we will. Join us for a series of 2024 debates on the issues that matter most. First up: immigration in Texas. | Continue reading
We chew through the primary results and brace for a Biden v. Trump rematch. Plus: TikTok, Supreme Court sanity, and much more. | Continue reading
Those fighting censorship in Canada, or Britain, or Ireland, wish they had a First Amendment to fall back on. | Continue reading
You can’t cover a country at war over Zoom. So we went. And now we’re bringing the stories back to you on Honestly. | Continue reading
Republican leaders thought they’d be rewarded for overturning Roe. Instead, conservative voters tell Olivia Reingold, it could lead to a backlash come Election Day. | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, a team of Free Press producers and reporters arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. The energy was somber and still, almost like the country and its people were frozen in time. As one mother of a hostage told us, “Every single second of our lives is tra … | Continue reading
‘Why am I running as a Republican? Because I’ve seen up close the hypocrisy of the left and it’s unfathomable.’ | Continue reading
Crime in Austin has soared under a progressive district attorney. On Tuesday, Democrats will decide: Is it time to put a moderate in charge? | Continue reading
Stefan Simchowitz is a provocateur. 'Why am I running as a Republican? Because I’ve seen up close the hypocrisy of the left and it’s unfathomable.' | Continue reading
In fifth-century BCE Greece, Pericles gave a speech on the sacrifices of war—and the heroes who deserve ‘the noblest of all tombs.’ | Continue reading
Meet the messengers from the past who saw the future and explain our world today. First up: Marshall McLuhan. | Continue reading
Marc Benioff has your number. The Communists are rebranding. No one at the Times ever said ‘Chick-fil-A.’ Plus: Hunter goes on the record, and much more. | Continue reading
I was honored to deliver the State of World Jewry lecture at the 92Y. This is what I said. | Continue reading
Plus: McConnell to step down. | Continue reading
Campuses must have the highest tolerance for expression, but no tolerance at all for violence like that exhibited by an anti-Israel mob this week. | Continue reading
Anyone rooting against self-driving cars is cheering for tens of thousands of deaths, year after year. We shouldn’t be burning self-driving cars in the streets. We should be celebrating them. | Continue reading