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Tough Love: Why Does Everyone Say Marriage Is Hard?
2+ hour ago (306+ words) What's so hard about marriage? I've lived with my husband for three years now, but we've been married for only one. We've been together, and very enmeshed in each other's lives, for about six years. I know this sounds flippant…...
Trump's Art of the Self-Deal. Plus. ..
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (874+ words) It's Thursday, July 2. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press'and our take on the world at large. Today: Ruy Teixeira on why Kamala 2028 is deadly serious, and Kat Rosenfield on why "Supergirl…...
Harvard's Antisemitism Problem Has Gone Underground
11+ hour, 33+ min ago (355+ words) The Free Press According to officials at Harvard University, its antisemitism problem is under control. Reports of antisemitic incidents on campus are down after the numbers exploded in the wake of October 7, 2023. Today, 170 Jewish and non-Jewish Harvard faculty members will…...
Hating "Supergirl" Doesn"t Make You a Misogynist
12+ hour, 14+ min ago (330+ words) The Free Press There"s a scene in the brand-new Supergirl where the titular heroine, having suffered a crushing defeat, launches herself into the stratosphere to experience what screenwriters refer to as "a dark night of the soul." In space,…...
Great Americans: Frederick Douglass Believed in America More Than America
14+ hour, 17+ min ago (311+ words) The Free Press Welcome back to Great Americans, a countdown to our country's 250th birthday. We're bringing you a writer we love on an American they love, every weekday between now and July 4. Previously, David Mamet wrote about Paul Dresser, the…...
The Summer I Turned Patriot
17+ hour, 19+ min ago (371+ words) The Free Press As a Brit, watching the World Cup come to America has brought up some familiar feelings. The cynic in me sees various Europeans gallivanting across the United States, amazed by a Buc-ee's with 100 gas pumps, and thinks:…...
Kamala 2028 Is No Joke
20+ hour, 2+ min ago (169+ words) Kamala! How can we miss you if you won't go away? The failed 2024 Democratic presidential candidate is clearly serious about running again. Just today, Axios reports that she is making overtures to the faction in the party that has all…...
This Week in American History: The Man Who Argued Against Independence
23+ hour, 31+ min ago (289+ words) The Free Press As we celebrate America's birthday this week, count on hearing no shortage of quotations from Massachusetts delegate John Adams, who delivered the closing argument in favor of independence at the Continental Congress 250 years ago today. Almost sure…...
The Supreme Court Defends the American Way. The Democratic Civil War Rages On. Plus. ..
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1036+ words) It's Wednesday, July 1. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press'and our take on the world at large. Today: Olivia Reingold and Peter Savodnik on the latest win for the DSA and the…...
Confessions of a Detransitioner
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (81+ words) The Free Press Beginning in the 2010s, medical transition for minors'puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries'went from rare to something closer to routine in a matter of years. Between 2017 and 2021, the number of American children diagnosed with gender dysphoria who began puberty…...