Weekend Listening: The Real Team America

Palmer Luckey, Katherine Boyle, and Joe Lonsdale on the defense tech they’re building to keep our country safe—and the threats that keep them up at night. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Ladies’ Night at the Grammys

Plus: In praise of Joni Mitchell, why authenticity is in, justice for Lana Del Rey, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The Grammys Don’t Deserve Joni Mitchell

The first lady of folk has never won an important award from the Recording Academy. So why is she even turning up for tomorrow’s show? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

TGIF: Taylor vs. Trump

Three Squad scandals. A Disney trigger warning. The GOP turns on Tay-Tay. Heterosexuals should probably give up on sex. Plus, Biden’s hard hat, Pelosi’s faux pas, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The Real Team America

There’s increasing concern that as scary as this period feels—between Russia’s two-year war in Ukraine and Hamas’s ongoing war with Israel—that all of this will come to be seen as the calm before the storm. Should China decide to move against Taiwan … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Failing Upward at the State Department

Plus: Biden our time with Iran, the new proletariat, the great Kelce-Swift stupidification, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Tracey Jacobson Abandoned Our Afghan Allies. Now She’s Getting a Promotion.

The woman who failed to rescue U.S. friends from the Taliban is Biden’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Road Warriors: The New Proletariat

Why the truck and tractor are replacing the picket line—and what that says about our politics. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Can This Death Row Inmate Bring Down the Death Penalty Itself?

Soon, Richard Glossip will either be dead—or he will be the man who gets the death penalty overturned in Oklahoma. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The UN’s Terrorism Teachers

Plus: What if the real war in Israel hasn’t yet begun? | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The UN’s Terrorism Teachers

American taxpayers have been subsidizing educators who call for the murder of Jews. Suspending these funds isn’t enough. UNRWA must be abolished for good. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Matti Friedman: What If the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?

Take the current war with Hamas and multiply it by ten. That’s what war with Hezbollah would look like. And Israelis are not asking if it will begin, but when. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain

Anna Akhmatova wrote of her people’s darkest days, when they were caught in the middle of the twentieth century’s vise. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Weekend Listening: The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism

Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk debate. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate

Today, Yascha Mounk and Christopher Rufo debate the origins of DEI and the right way to fight the illiberal orthodoxy that has consumed our schools and institutions. Christopher is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a board member at New College of Florida, and maybe the … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

TGIF: Soldiers of the Resistance

Democratic Socialists of America has a budget crisis. Hamas thanks U.S. college kids. Trump keeps soaring. Oakland’s In-N-Out shuts down. Plus, the white supremacists of Taizz. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

‘Antisemitism is again becoming a terrible scourge.’

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan talks to The Free Press about the importance of bearing witness. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True’

Plus: U.S. troops know we’re already at war with Iran. And a deeper dive on high school library censorship. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True’

Amin Husain added that New York is a ‘Zionist city,’ and bragged about violence against Israel at an event at The New School last month. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

American Troops Know: Iran Is Already at War with Us

Iranian proxies have carried out dozens of attacks on U.S. troops since October 7. Two Navy SEALs are dead. ‘We are funding our enemy and sending our service members to be their victims.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The Canadian Truckers’ Day in Court

A judge has ruled that Justin Trudeau’s trucker crackdown was illegal. Rupa Subramanya talks to the protesters his government targeted. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

It’s Over, and It’s Trump

The question is why? Plus: More from the campaign trail, justice for Canada’s truckers—and Barbie! | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Trump. Again. The Question Is Why?

Are voters craving an authoritarian who will overthrow our democracy—or is there something else going on? Martin Gurri explains. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

They’re Black Democrats. And They’re Suing Chicago Over Migrants.

The city is greeting new arrivals with resources like health screenings and rent support. ‘They’re giving migrants all the things we’ve been asking for since we came here in chains.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Is There Any Way in Hell Nikki Haley Can Stop Trump?

The former governor could beat Biden. But Trump is ahead in New Hampshire by double digits. Can Haley pull off a miracle tomorrow? We asked her on the campaign trail. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Hughes said nothing of his wife’s suicide for decades, until his own final years when he penned the words: ‘Everything in me loved her.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 3 months ago

The Trouble with ‘Murder at the End of the World’

Darby Hart is brilliant, young, bisexual, and beautiful. But she’s no feminist hero, writes Kat Rosenfield. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

TGIF: TimHouthi Chalamet

Trump sweeps Iowa. Americans riot over a cup. Milei is the talk of Davos. Plus: A lost city, flying cars, and much more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

What Books Are Really Getting Banned?

We investigate. Plus: Jason Kelce vs. Travis Kelce, veep-stakes, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

The Truth About Banned Books

The left claims that progressive books are being censored in public schools. But my research proves the opposite is true. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures

It’s been four years since the first American death from the coronavirus. Four years since we were told that wearing masks—even cloth masks—were essential to keeping us safe. The same goes for lockdowns and social distancing. Any inconvenience to society was out … | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Free Press Investigations Get Results

DEI in retreat. A captured imam is freed. An anti-Israel map is taken down. Plus, Carole Hooven on leaving Harvard, a hostage speaks, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard

After I stated banal facts about human biology, I found myself caught in a DEI web, without the support to do the job I loved. The only way out was to leave it. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

John Sailer: The DEI Rollback

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices are still deeply entrenched at our institutions—but the retrenchment is well under way. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

The Girls I Met in the Tunnels

Seventeen-year-old Agam Goldstein-Almog saw Hamas murder her father and sister before her eyes. Then she was taken to Gaza. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

What Really Happened to George Floyd?

Coleman Hughes on some inconvenient reporting that suggests Derek Chauvin is not a murderer, but a scapegoat. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Canada's Latest Initiative: Fentanyl for Minors

Rupa Subramanya reports on the latest insanity north of the border | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Why the Average Republican Voter Hates the GOP. . .

. . . but loves Trump | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Where Ron Went Wrong

Why the Florida governor couldn’t take down Trump | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Trump Wins Bigly in Iowa. Fentanyl for Minors in Canada. And, Is the Golden Age of TV Over?

Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Donald’s working-class appeal. Peter Savodnik on what went wrong for Ron DeSantis. Plus, the Emmys, an ode to ‘Succession,’ and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

‘Succession’ and The End of Television’s Golden Age

Jesse Armstrong oversaw the last great writers’ room. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

One Hundred Days of War

Reflections from Bari Weiss, Michael Oren, Shadi Hamid, Einat Wilf, Bruno Maçães, Haviv Rettig Gur, Andrew Sullivan, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

The Silence of the Feminists

One hundred days ago, the world changed. October 7 has proven to be many things: the opening salvo in a brutal war between Israel and Hamas; an attack that could precipitate a broader, regional war; the beginning of a global, ongoing orgy of antisemitism | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Andrew Sullivan: How Many Children Is Israel Willing to Kill?

Hamas bears ultimate responsibility for the carnage. The question is how much care Israel has been taking to minimize the collateral horror. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

MLK’s Former Speechwriter: ‘We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America’

‘I Have a Dream’ coauthor Clarence Jones on color blindness, Ibram X. Kendi, black-Jewish relations, and why MLK ‘wouldn’t permit what’s going on.’ | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Things Worth Remembering: The Art of Nostalgia

Philip Larkin’s poem about retired racehorses captures past glory without giving in to sentiment. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Weekend Listening: Dean Phillips on His Long-Shot White House Bid

The Minnesota moderate on why he’s running, Democratic corruption, Biden’s decline, January 6, and more. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago

Amanda Knox: Watching Gypsy Rose

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has served her time, but she’s not yet free. I know what it’s like to emerge into a world that has already decided who you are. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 4 months ago