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Columbia Grad Students Get a Reality Check
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (132+ words) The Free Press Columbia University graduate students were hurtling toward a strike when a warning arrived from a union that has been through lots of strikes: Stop making radical and ridiculous demands. The stern message from the United Auto Workers…...
Was This Prosecutor Pulled from a Case Because He's Jewish? Plus. ..
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (478+ words) It's Monday, May 18. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press'and our take on the world at large. Today: the architect of a genocide who died without facing justice. How teachers' unions became…...
How Teachers" Unions Became Political Big Spenders
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (155+ words) Are our country's teachers' unions actually just political fundraising machines? A new report out today accuses both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) of spending tens of millions of dollars on electing Democratic political…...
Foreign Lobbying Is Booming in Trump's Washington
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (183+ words) The Free Press The reelection of Donald Trump, as his former adviser Steve Bannon recently told us, heralded a "reorganization of the world's commercial relationships." And on his first day back in office, the president promised to treat trade policy…...
Can a Jew Be Trusted to Prosecute Campus Protesters?
10+ hour, 31+ min ago (144+ words) The Free Press Earlier this month, a judge declared that Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen could not be trusted to do his job because he is Jewish. That was not how she put it, but that seemed to…...
Did MAHA Just Sink a Senator?
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (302+ words) The Free Press The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement seemed to be shaky'or even teetering. Last week, MAHA ally Marty Makary was forced to step down as head of the Food and Drug Administration by President Donald Trump. Trump…...
A Genocidaire Has Escaped Justice
11+ hour, 24+ min ago (536+ words) The Free Press Alice Wairimu Nderitu worked for years at the UN as a special adviser on the prevention of genocide before being "bullied and hounded" out of her job in 2025 when she refused to say there was a genocide…...
I Don't Want to Put Another Black Man in Jail'
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (248+ words) The Free Press "Suicidal empathy" is a politically loaded term to describe a decidedly human phenomenon: a romantic belief in the power of compassion to heal all wounds. The suicidally empathetic person believes that trauma is the root of all…...
New York City's Mayor Can't Give Muslim Extremists a Pass
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (153+ words) The Free Press New York City narrowly averted a catastrophe on Saturday. Outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor, two men'Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi'attempted to detonate shrapnel-filled improvised explosive devices. Their targets were NYPD officers and a…...
Israel's Death Penalty Law Isn't What It Seems
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (189+ words) The Free Press With war raging in the Middle East, we want to bring you as many trusted voices on the news as we can. One such voice is the Israeli journalist Amit Segal. He writes a daily newsletter, It's…...