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Who Is Responsible for the Devastation in California?
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- Who Is Responsible for the Devastation in California?
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- 1 year ago
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Trump’s inauguration is right around the corner, and there is so much to cover about the new White House. In the coming weeks, we’ll have key figures in the Trump administration on Honestly to talk about what they are planning.
But, we all know that if Trump 2.0 is anything like Trump 1.0, there are going to be a lot of twists and turns here. And we want to analyze and break down each development that unfolds in Trump’s new administration.
Starting today and for the next few months, we’re going to bring you weekly episodes with two of my favorite guests: Batya Ungar-Sargon and Brianna Wu.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is a Free Press contributor and the opinion editor at Newsweek. Brianna Wu is a Democratic fundraiser and activist, and in her past life, a video game developer. If you’ve heard them together on Honestly ...
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- Overwhelming Support for LA Fire Victims
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- 1 year ago
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- “There’s been so much overwhelming public support that most places have had to turn away volunteers and supplies.”
The FP’s Austyn Jeffs reports from donation centers across LA where residents have come together to support those who lost everything.
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- Where Was LA's Emergency Water Supply?
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- 1 year ago
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- “Cowardice” Enabled the UK’s Grooming Gangs
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- 1 year ago
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- Los Angeles Fires Footage: "Everybody we know lost their homes."
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- 1 year ago
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- The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West
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It’s the biggest crime—and cover-up—in British history. And most people, at least until recently, haven’t even heard of it.
Thousands of young girls, mostly children, were systematically groomed and raped by immigrant gangs across the UK over a period of decades. Police turned the girls away. Detectives were discouraged from investigating. Politicians and prosecutors did their best to sweep it under the rug. Journalists skipped the biggest story of their lives. A culture of silence enveloped the United Kingdom. Why?
Today, we talk to two women who spoke out years ago about what was happening while nearly everyone looked the other way: the British feminist and author Julie Bindel, and the author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both took tremendous risks in highlighting the story while the l...
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- Terrifying Footage From the California Fires.
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- 1 year ago
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- The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
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- Bryan Johnson: How Not to Die in 2025
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If you haven’t heard of Bryan Johnson or watched the new Netflix documentary about him, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, Bryan is a person who has given his life—and his body—over to the science of longevity. That means that he has essentially turned himself into a human lab rat, undergoing hundreds of tests and studies on every human marker imaginable in order to discover the best ways to stop the process of human aging.
What he’s found is unconventional, to say the least: He eats dinner at 11 a.m., he has swapped blood with his 17-year-old son, and he measures his nighttime erection lengths—just to name a few of the hundreds of things that you probably have never heard of a person doing in the name of health and longevity.
But it’s not just that Bryan wants to reverse aging and live forever. He also thinks we’re at the bleeding edge of a...
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- Inside Columbia’s "Museum of Terror"
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- 1 year ago
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- Read the full piece at TheFP.com.
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- Babylon Bee CEO: Does the Woke Right Actually Exist?
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- 1 year ago
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- Listen to Seth Dillon's full conversation with Bari Weiss: https://thefp.pub/3W46dhs.
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- Should Fifth Graders Learn What It Means to Be Transgender?
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- 1 year ago
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- Read Ben's full piece at The Free Press: https://thefp.pub/3PoSQ7r
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- We're Millionaires.
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- 1 year ago
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- We did it. You did it. One million strong. Here’s to many more.
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- How Christianity Remade the World
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- 1 year ago
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- Listen to the full podcast with Bari Weiss: https://thefp.pub/3VTWbiI
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- Sam Altman on His Feud with Elon Musk—and the Battle for AI's Future
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Just a few years ago, as AI technology was beginning to spill out of start-ups in Silicon Valley and hitting our smartphones, the political and cultural conversation about this nascent science was not yet clear. I remember asking former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Honestly in January 2022 if AI was just like the sexy robot in Ex Machina. I literally said to him, “What is AI? How do you define it? I do not understand.”
Today, not only has it become clear what AI is and how to use it—ChatGPT averages more than 120 million active daily users and processes over a billion queries per day—but it’s also becoming clear with the political and cultural ramifications—and the arguments and debates—around AI are going to be over the next few years.
Among those big questions are who gets to lead us into this new age of AI technology, what company is going to get there ...
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- Exclusive: Syria's Largest Mass Grave
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- 1 year ago
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AL QUTAYFAH, Syria—Every week for years, the refrigerated trucks came, at least two or three rumbling to the edge of a barren field along a private military road, before idling and departing. Residents who lived in this town, a 40-minute drive from Damascus, knew what they were up to. “We’d see them driving on this street, dripping with blood,” one resident told an interviewer from The Center for Peace Communications on Wednesday.
But, until now, no one could speak out.
This week, roughly 10 days after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, locals finally revealed what the government had been doing all that time near their homes. Al-Qutayfah contains the largest known mass grave in Syria. The trucks had been dropping off frozen bodies, up to 600 corpses per week.
The al-Qutayfah mass grave is a vast, dusty field punctured by deep trenches stretching up ...
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- Sam Altman addresses his feud with Elon Musk.
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- Sam Altman on His Feud With Elon Musk
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At the center of the ongoing debate surrounding AI and its future are two men, Sam Altman and Elon Musk. And if you haven’t been following, they aren’t exactly in alignment.
They started off as friends and business partners. In fact, Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015. But over the years, Musk grew increasingly frustrated with OpenAI until he finally resigned from the board in 2018. That feud escalated this past year when Musk sued Altman and OpenAI on multiple occasions to try to prevent the company from launching a for-profit arm of the business, a structure that Musk claims is never supposed to happen in OpenAI. He also argues that changing its structure in this way might even be “illegal.”
On the one hand, this is a very complex disagreement. To understand every single detail of it, you probably need a law degree and special expertise in American tax law. But you don’t need a...
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- Mass Hysteria: Mick West Debunks "Mysterious" Drone Reports | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Batya Ungar-Sargon and Michael Moynihan are joined by Mick West to discuss the explosion of "drone" sightings in the skies of New Jersey and beyond.
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- Why Is Bitcoin’s Value Skyrocketing? with Benjamin Cowen | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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For more of Ben's insights, check out intothecryptoverse.com. New users can use code TFP15 for 15% off any tier.
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- Trump Is Suing the Press—and It’s Dangerous, with Greg Lukianoff | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael Moynihan speaks with Greg Lukianoff, the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, about the consumer fraud lawsuits being brought by Donald Trump against a pollster and the Des Moines Register.
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- Steve Bannon on Luigi Mangione—And Avoiding Violent Revolution in America
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On Sunday night, members of New York’s Republican elite gathered at Cipriani Wall Street and raised a collective champagne flute to economic populism.
Speaking at the New York Young Republican Club’s 112th annual gala, guest of honor Steve Bannon delivered a gleeful, vengeful, triumphant indictment of Democrats, mainstream media, and corporate America. He also congratulated the audience on being a part of the movement that elected Trump: “Each and every one of you have changed the direction of this country by showing that populism is inclusive.”
His celebration of inclusion might be surprising to readers of The New York Times, which once equated Trump’s former campaign adviser with “racism, sexism, antisemitism, and nativism.” But Bannon—now free from his four-month prison stint for defying a January 6–related subpoena and seemingly undaunted by his ...
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- Syria’s “Liberators” Tortured This American Journalist for Years
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- Syria’s “Liberators” Tortured This American Journalist for Years
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Last week marked a historic turning point in Syria. Rebel forces seized control of the nation, toppling the regime of Bashar al-Assad and ending his family’s brutal 50-year stranglehold on power.
For decades, the Assad dynasty ruled through unimaginable violence—launching chemical attacks on civilians, silencing dissent with mass imprisonment and torture, and presiding over a civil war that killed an estimated 600,000 people and drove 13 million into exile.
In cities across the world, jubilant Syrians have celebrated the regime’s downfall, having deemed it to be one of the world’s most oppressive dictatorships.
But not everyone is celebrating. Or at least, some people are saying there is reason for caution.
That’s because the coalition of rebel forces taking control of Syria now is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a militant Isl...
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- Trump's Counterterrorism Chief: "This Is Civilizational War"
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- 1 year ago
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- UK Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch Says New Immigrants to the UK Must Adopt Western Values
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- 1 year ago
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- UK Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch Does Not “Follow the Template” of Identity Politics
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- 1 year ago
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- UK Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch Explains Why She Is a “Gender Critical Feminist”
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- 1 year ago
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- Kemi Badenoch Explains Why She Hates Critical Race Theory
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- 1 year ago
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- Trump's Controversial Counterterrorism Pick Shares MAGA Vision for Foreign Policy | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon interview Sebastian Gorka, Trump's controversial pick for senior director for counterterrorism. They discuss Trump's foreign policy vision, MAGA's isolationist wing, and more.
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- The October 7 Attacks Backfired on Iran | FP LIVE
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Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon interview Dexter Filkins on what comes next in Syria following the fall of Assad.
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- EXCLUSIVE: We Sent Cameras Inside Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’
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Exclusive footage and survivor testimony from inside the notorious Sednaya prison offer a glimpse into the Syrian dictator’s reign of terror.
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- Do People Actually Believe It’s Heroic to Murder a Health Insurance CEO?
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- 1 year ago
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- We sent Ben Kawaller on a quest to separate real life from the internet.
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- Ro Khanna: Democrats Stopped Listening to Americans | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Batya Ungar-Sargon interviews Rep. Ro Khanna on why Democrats lost in November, what the correct vision is for the future of his party, and how to fix America's broken healthcare system.
Enjoy!
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- Marc Andreessen Describes the Meeting That Convinced Him to Endorse Trump
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- 1 year ago
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- Marc Andreessen Explains Why Social Media Companies Stopped Censoring the Lab Leak Theory.
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- 1 year ago
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- Marc Andreessen Says It's Morning in America
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- 1 year ago
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- LUIGI MANGIONE IS NOT A HERO
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- 1 year ago
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- Is Kemi Badenoch the Next Margaret Thatcher?
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- 1 year ago
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Kemi Badenoch just became the first black woman to lead the UK’s Conservative Party, the oldest in British politics, colloquially known as “the Tories.” She’s also 44, has three children, grew up in Nigeria, actually worked at McDonald’s (unlike some American politicians who have claimed to), didn’t go to Oxford or Cambridge, and has a master’s degree in computer engineering. Not exactly your typical Tory party leader profile.
But it’s Kemi Badenoch who has just inherited a Conservative Party that has dominated British politics for decades until Labour Party leader Keir Starmer became prime minister earlier this year. The Britain that Starmer inherited—the Britain that Conservatives like David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Rishi Sunak left behind—is a country with enormous debt, a shrinking GDP, a huge immigration challenge, and arguably a national i...
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- Jordan Neely Needed Confinement—Not Social Services
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Batya Ungar-Sargon speaks with Rafael Mangual, who believes NYC failed Jordan Neely—along with the people of New York—by not keeping a known public safety threat confined from the rest of society.
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- Why Is Israel Bombing Syria Following Assad’s Fall? | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael Moynihan speaks with Jonathan Spyer on the latest developments in the Middle East following the collapse of the Assad regime.
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- The Outrageous Adoration for Luigi Mangione | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon discuss the stunning wave of public support for Luigi Mangione—the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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- Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship and Dining With Trump
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Democrats once seemed to have a monopoly on Silicon Valley. Perhaps you remember when Elon Musk bought Twitter and posted pictures of cabinets and cabinets at the old office filled with “#StayWoke” T-shirts.
But just as the country is realigning itself along new ideological and political lines, so is the tech capital of the world. In 2024, many of the Valley’s biggest tech titans came out with their unabashed support for Donald Trump. There was, of course, Elon Musk . . . but also WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum; Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who run the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini; VCs such as Shaun Maguire, David Sacks, and Chamath Palihapitiya; Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale; Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey; hedge fund manager Bill Ackman; and today’s Honestly guest: one of the world’s most influential investors and the man responsible for bringing the inter...
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- OPINION: Batya on Biden's “hypocritical” preemptive pardons.
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- 1 year ago
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- Will Trump Help Secure Peace for the Palestinians? | FP Live
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- 1 year ago
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- OPINION: Biden Floats “Hypocritical” Blanket Pardons for Fauci, Cheney, & Others | FP LIVE
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- Ryan Holiday: What We Can Learn from the Ancient Stoics
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In the 2010s, Ryan Holiday was the head of marketing for the controversial clothing brand American Apparel, and the sought-after media strategist for people like the womanizing blogger Tucker Max. Then he wrote an exposé called Trust Me, I’m Lying, which lifted the veil on his world of media manipulation.
Now, he is an advocate of the ancient philosophy of stoicism, which he roughly defines as the idea that we do not control what happens but we do control how we respond, and that it’s best to respond with four key virtues: courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice.
His series of books on stoic virtues have sold over three million copies worldwide. His latest book, "Right Thing, Right Now," is about the necessity of living justly—even when it is hard.
Today: why power corrupts, how ego can destroy you, whether we should remain loyal to people even...
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- Explained: South Korea Just Narrowly Avoided Dictatorship | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael discusses the political turmoil engulfing South Korea with Geoffrey Cain, a journalist, author, and scholar who specializes in East and Central Asia.
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- Rightwing Backlash to Casting of Israeli Jew as the Virgin Mary | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Batya speaks to Rod Dreher to delve into the controversy over Netflix’s decision to cast an Israeli Jewish actress in the title role of its Christmas film Mary. Read his full piece in The Free Press: https://thefp.pub/41kcHff
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- Breaking: Trump Likely to Replace Pete Hegseth with Ron DeSantis for Defense Secretary | FP LIVE
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- 1 year ago
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Michael Moynihan and Batya Ungar-Sargon discuss the latest reports that Trump is poised to replace Pete Hegseth with Ron DeSantis for his Defense Secretary nominee.
