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DEBATE: Trump Bans Transgender Troops from the Military
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- DEBATE: Trump Bans Transgender Troops from the Military
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- 10:12
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- 2 years ago
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It’s President Donald Trump’s second week in office, and he has wasted no time being the wrecking ball he promised his voters he would be.
To talk about it all, Free Press senior editor Peter Savodnik is joined today by Brianna Wu and FP investigative reporter Madeleine Rowley, who spoke to Hegseth this week about his plans to end diversity, equity, and inclusion in the military.
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- Why the Food Babe Is Optimistic About the “Bipartisan” MAHA Movement
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- 0:39
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- 2 years ago
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- Jillian Michaels Says Americans Are So Unhealthy Because “It's All About Money”
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- 1:19
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- 2 years ago
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- A Night in San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Market
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- 4:58
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- 2 years ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/42uFeiT
We asked police, addicts, and residents to weigh in—while people appeared to overdose in front of our eyes. With politicians considering mass arrests, the city may be at a turning point. Ben Kawaller reports.
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- Calley Means: Why Americans Are So Sick.
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- 1:48
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- 2 years ago
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- America’s Health Activated Jillian Michaels
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- 1:38
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- 2 years ago
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- Abandon Ultra-Processed Foods
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- 0:48
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- 2 years ago
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- Inside the MAHA Revolution | Calley Means, Vani Hari, and Jillian Michaels
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- 1:10:24
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- 2 years ago
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There has been a cultural sea change over the last year when it comes to health in America. It is shepherded by an unexpected coalition of nutritionists, longevity experts, wellness influencers, holistic and functional doctors of medicine, moms wearing babies and natural deodorant, mushroom shamans, and some vaccine skeptics. They’ve gathered under the banner of Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, and they’re here to tell us that plastic cutting boards, Diet Coke, and pasteurized milk—all things that once seemed perfectly normal in American life—are actually killing us.
A decade ago, if you read that list of personas you would think MAHA is some woo-woo, hippie progressive movement. But here we are in 2025, and this is the same group that helped usher Donald Trump to power.
What does MAHA stand for? What does it look like when it marries itself to power? And ...
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- The Backstory Behind Hillbilly Elegy
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- 1:18
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- 2 years ago
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- When professor Amy Chua faced cancellation after the release of her 2011 memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” her student J.D. Vance sent an email that would set into motion his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“I wrote right back, and I just said, ’You have to write your own book.’ ”
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- DEBATE: Trump Reverses Biden-Era Transgender Policies | Batya Ungar-Sargon & Brianna Wu
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- 8:50
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- 2 years ago
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- Is San Francisco Finally Abandoning Woke Politics?
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- 3:43
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- 2 years ago
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Back in 2021, “equity” was the board’s guiding principle of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. At its inaugural meeting in January of that year, the word was uttered nearly two dozen times. “Equity and racial justice are the issues that matter,” Catherine Stefani, a former member of the board, said then. Both to “our country and our city right now.”
Indeed, for over a decade, San Francisco has enacted policies rooted in social justice. In 2013, the city police department ordered officers not to pursue nonviolent offenders unless they posed a risk to public safety. Addicts were allowed to inject dangerous drugs like heroin and fentanyl in the open air, and overdoses soared. Meanwhile, scenes of people brazenly shoplifting goods from Bay Area drugstores went viral after petty crime was decriminalized. And Shamann Walton, the board president from 2021-2023, spearhe...
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- Working-Class People Don’t Support Utopian Ideas Like ‘Abolish the Police.’
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- 1:01
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- 2 years ago
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- Working-Class Americans Want the Basics Like Security and Affordability, Not Fashionable Ideology
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- 1:19
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- 2 years ago
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- What Russians Think of Tucker Carlson
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- 3:03
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- 2 years ago
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Three days into his second term, President Donald Trump threatened to impose “high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States” if Moscow doesn’t reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine “soon.”
But since the start of the war in February 2022, the West had placed so many sanctions on Russia that it has surpassed Iran to become the most sanctioned country in the world. But whether they’ve made a significant difference in the lives of ordinary Russians is hard to know. What is clear is that the sanctions have proven insufficient in hurting the Russian economy enough to force the Kremlin to withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
Last year, Putin boasted about Russia’s economic resilience and its resistance to Western sanctions, saying: “We have growth, and they have decline.” A few months later, Tucker Ca...
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- Their Son Was Murdered by Hamas. What Do They Think of the Hostage Deal?
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- 2:29
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- 2 years ago
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- The parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was killed in Hamas captivity, reflect on the relief and concern they feel over the Israel-Hamas hostage deal.
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- Jillian Michaels on MAHA Under Trump
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- 1:50
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- 2 years ago
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- WATCH: LA Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot
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- 55:02
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- 2 years 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 before, you know that these two come from dif...
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- Inside Trump's MAGA Victory Rally.
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- 1:45
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- 2 years ago
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- Sen. Ted Cruz on TikTok, China, the Ceasefire Deal, and Much More
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- 1:09:20
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- 2 years ago
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- A wide-ranging conversation live in Washington, D.C., on the eve of Trump's inauguration.
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- Mold, Potholes, Broken Doors, Collapsed Ceilings: LA Fire Stations Are Falling Apart
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- 2:52
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- 2 years ago
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- Xaviaer DuRousseau Says People Are Finally Being 'Honest' in Their Support of America
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- 2:18
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- 2 years ago
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- “Biden Wasn’t Running the Country.” Speaker Mike Johnson on the Biden Cover-Up
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- 1:05:48
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- 2 years ago
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The FP is in our nation’s capital for the inauguration—and we’re talking to everyone with skin in the game. Today, hear Bari Weiss in conversation with Speaker Mike Johnson on the future of America under Donald Trump's second administration.
Stay tuned for more conversations from "The Free Press in D.C."
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- What Do Russians Think of the War?
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- 8:55
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- 2 years ago
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Read more about Tanya's trip to Moscow: https://thefp.pub/4g17cpH
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- The Rose Bowl Is a Base Camp for Over 3,000 Firefighters Battling the L.A. Fires
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- 2:10
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- 2 years ago
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- Introducing the Breaking History Podcast with Eli Lake
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- 1:33
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- 2 years ago
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- Before Donald Trump, there was Huey Long. Before the Columbia tentifada, there was the Weather Underground.
Eli Lake knows that history doesn’t repeat itself—but it rhymes. Listen to Breaking History, launching Jan. 22. https://thefp.pub/4je6JmJ
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- H.R. McMaster’s Tell-all on Trump
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- 1:03:39
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- 2 years ago
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Very few people have worked closely with President-elect Donald Trump, gotten fired, and walked away with a pretty balanced view of him.
But former national security adviser to Trump, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster is an exception.
In his book At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, he gives an honest account of working in Trump’s first administration: the good, the bad, and the unexpected.
Last week, McMaster sat down with Michael Moynihan at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia for an in-person Free Press Book Club event to discuss it all. They talk about his moments of tension with Trump, his understanding of Trump’s foreign policy, and how Trump’s rhetoric toward adversaries was actually good, despite being villainized by the press. And also, as McMaster puts it, Trump can be “so disruptive, he often inte...
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- Who Is Responsible for the Devastation in California?
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- 16:43
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- 2 years ago
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- Watch the full interview: https://thefp.pub/40zwruw
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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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- 2:26
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- 2 years 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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- 1:25
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- 2 years ago
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- “Cowardice” Enabled the UK’s Grooming Gangs
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- 1:53
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- 2 years ago
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- Los Angeles Fires Footage: "Everybody we know lost their homes."
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- 1:59
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- 2 years ago
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- The UK Grooming Gangs and the Cowardice of the West
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- 1:13:52
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- 2 years ago
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Read the transcript of this conversation: https://thefp.pub/4h5chhy
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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- 2:04
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- 2 years ago
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- Read more: https://thefp.pub/4ahI392
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- The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
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- 2:22
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- 2 years ago
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- Bryan Johnson: How Not to Die in 2025
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- 1:16:53
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- 2 years ago
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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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- 2:26
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- 2 years 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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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years 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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- 2:06
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- 2 years 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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- 0:46
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- 2 years 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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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 2 years 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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- 55:57
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- 2 years ago
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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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- 3:19
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- 2 years 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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- 1:27
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- 2 years ago
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- Sam Altman on His Feud With Elon Musk
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- 10:39
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- 2 years ago
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- Watch the full interview: https://thefp.pub/3P7bl0e
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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- 17:55
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- 2 years 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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- 14:17
- Date posted
- 2 years 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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- 16:02
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- 2 years 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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- 14:34
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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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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- 1:09
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- 2 years ago
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- Syria’s “Liberators” Tortured This American Journalist for Years
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- 55:45
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- 2 years ago
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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...
