Dear Caitlin Flanagan and Suzy Weiss: A Free Press Advice Special!
Never before have people felt more comfortable weighing in on other people’s lives. What diet to do, what to wear, how to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex, whether or not you should put m...
13 Aug 202458min
A Tim Walz Face-Off: Radical? Moderate? We Debate!
A few weeks ago, very few people outside of the Beltway and niche media circles had ever heard the name Tim Walz. Almost overnight, the relatively obscure governor from Minnesota started to gain tract...
8 Aug 202458min
Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting
Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to the tumultuous year of 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson dropped out of his own reelection race, and...
6 Aug 202441min
What to Do When the Market Drops? Call Larry Summers.
On Monday, the markets had one of its worst trading days since the 2008 financial crisis. Stocks tumbled around the world, with a global sell-off, amid fears of a recession. The VIX (an index often ca...
6 Aug 202436min
Can You Drink Your Way to Sobriety?
Today, we have a special story from two friends and former Free Pressers, Andy Mills and Matt Boll. They have a new podcast, Reflector, that I think you’re going to love, and we’re sharing an episode ...
1 Aug 202457min
A Middle East on the Brink
On Saturday afternoon, a Hezbollah rocket fired from southern Lebanon struck a soccer field in the village of Majdal Shams in Israel’s north, slaughtering 12 children. For the last 10 months, many ha...
30 Jul 20241h 14min
Is Kamala Harris 'Brat'? Also: What's Brat?
Most of the media-verse right now is focused on a handful of serious and important questions: Kamala’s VP pick, if Democrats have been anti-Democratic, if Kamala can receive Biden’s campaign money wit...
25 Jul 202459min
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Our Cities Unsafe? A Live Debate.
The United States locks up nearly two million people, the highest number of prisoners for any country in the world. That represents about 20 percent of the world’s prison population, even though the U...
23 Jul 20241h 29min
