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 t...
2 Apr 20241h 7min
The Story of Someone Who Changed His Mind
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 A...
28 Mar 20241h 23min
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 ...
26 Mar 20241h 15min
The Free Press in Israel Part 3: The Gathering Storm
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 t...
21 Mar 20241h 12min
The Free Press in Israel Part 2: Shattered Illusions
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...
15 Mar 20241h 29min
The Free Press in Israel Part 1: Running Toward Fire
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 yo...
7 Mar 202450min
Trailer: The Free Press in Israel
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...
5 Mar 20245min
Why the Kids Aren't Alright
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, most anxious, depressed, and medicated generation on record. Nearly a third of teen girls say they have...
27 Feb 20241h 25min
