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War, Memory, and the Sons We Lose
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (240+ words) The Free Press Welcome to Things Worth Remembering, our weekly column in which writers share a poem or a paragraph that all of us should commit to heart. This week, as we commemorate Memorial Day, Free Press columnist and Marine…...
Judson's Last Ride - by Sean Trende
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (374+ words) Judson's Last Ride The Free Press The journalist Sean Trende spends most of his time dissecting the details of American politics. As senior elections analyst for Real Clear Politics, he's normally diving into vote counts, redistricting maps, and polling crosstabs....
Thirty Years Late, Justice Comes Knocking on Ra'l Castro's Door
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (330+ words) The Free Press Wars, global trade, and the world's shifting alliances. Thirty years ago, in February 1996, Cuban Mi Gs over international waters off Cuba ambushed and shot down two unarmed Cessnas operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an exile-led humanitarian…...
Searching for God in Silicon Valley. Plus. ..
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (377+ words) Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Joe Nocera reviews the new Steve Jobs biography, 40 years after profiling him. Jill Kargman, who skewers the Upper East Side for a living, says: "I don't need Bellinis to be uncensored." Kat Rosenfield…...
Searching for God in Silicon Valley
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (419+ words) The Free Press A running joke at Bay Area parties is that AI researchers are "building God." This, of course, sounds wildly grandiose. No one I have met means it literally'nobody thinks they are making something supernatural or divine. To…...
Eat Thy Neighbor's Sourdough
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (180+ words) Whatever vulnerability she has," Freya told me about women like this, there is a rabbit hole she can go down." Gabby Golden believes that God gave her the bakery, or at least the idea for it, so that she might…...
How the Trans Agenda Left Gay and Lesbian People Behind
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (327+ words) The Free Press Last week, University of Cambridge student Maeve Halligan delivered a speech at the Cambridge Union in support of the motion, "This House Believes Modern LGBTQ+ Activism Fails Its Community." According to Maeve, a movement built to protect…...
Two Drinks with. .. the "Odd Mom Out
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (233+ words) I'm sure I have bad bones. I'm sure I have, like, wafer bird bones. But I don't like protein and I don't lift weights," Jill Kargman tells me. My doctor literally called me skinny fat, and said if you trace…...
Wait, Are Kids' Movies Good Again?
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (183+ words) Wait, Are Kids" Movies Good Again? The Free Press The year was 1985; the setting, a drive-in theater in upstate New York. The movie on the screen was Steven Spielberg"s E. T. , and we had come to the moment'you know the one'where…...
Nithya Raman Was Supposed to Be LA's Mamdani. Then Spencer Pratt Showed Up.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (280+ words) The Free Press Last week, progressive Los Angeles city councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running to be the city's next mayor, sat down for a one-hour interview with leftist streamer-slash-Chinese Communist Party'apologist Hasan Piker. Piker has become something of a…...