Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost Their Minds—She Almost Did, Too
Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie was, for a very long time, deeply embedded in the progressive left. Before Bari and Nellie met—and fe...
14 Touko 20241h 22min
Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain?
There’s a new $6 billion-dollar industry. Its global market size is expected to increase to $100 billion within the decade. No, it’s not a fancy new app or a revolutionary gadget: it’s weight-loss dru...
7 Touko 20241h 25min
‘Small Talk’ with David Sedaris
The news lately has not exactly been a walk in the park. Iran launched hundreds of rockets at Israel, creating the prospect of World War III; we have Trump’s ongoing criminal trial; a TikTok ban; a wa...
2 Touko 202412min
Should the U.S. Shut Its Borders? A Live Debate.
The United States is home to more immigrants than any other country in the world. It is a truism that everyone who lives here at some point came from somewhere else. At the same time, debates about wh...
30 Huhti 20241h 26min
Is Banning TikTok a Mistake? A Debate.
President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDance—or else face an outright ban. The measure was included in a bill providing a $95.3 billion foreig...
26 Huhti 202457min
Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom
This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to “go back to Poland.” A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia to...
22 Huhti 202449min
Nicole Avant on Tragedy, Forgiveness, and Thinking Free
It was November 30, 2021, when Nicole Avant got a call in the middle of the night from her husband. The unthinkable had happened. Her otherwise healthy mom, Jacqueline Avant, was in critical condition...
18 Huhti 20241h 14min
Iran Attacked Israel. What Comes Next?
In the late hours of Saturday night 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles barreled toward Israel. It was a direct and unprecedented strike on Israel from Iran. Extraordinarily, I...
16 Huhti 202449min
