The Free Press
Former Gov. Pataki: There's "Nothing Progressive" About Leftists
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- Former Gov. Pataki: There's "Nothing Progressive" About Leftists
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Former New York governor George Pataki slammed “radical leftists” for claiming the banner of progressivism in an exclusive sit-down with The Free Press’s Maya Sulkin. “They’re not progressive,” he said. “They’re retrograde.”
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- The Radicalization of American Women
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- 4:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- What the hell is going on with women?
We’ve heard plenty about the radicalization of men—but what about women? It seems the radicalization of women has been building for years, with potentially major consequences for America’s future.
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- Marriage Is Not Hard
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “Is marriage harder than remaining single your entire life? No, it is not.”
Read the full response from Abigail Shrier at TheFP.com.
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- Former Gov. Pataki: Piker Is a Disgrace
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The United States is still reeling from 9/11, says former New York Governor George Pataki, who held the office during the attacks. And Hasan Piker is part of that problem.
“We are a house divided against ourselves right now,” he tells The Free Press’s Maya Sulkin.
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- My Boyfriend Won't Marry Me
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- “Jane. Get away from this guy.” Our advice columnist responds to a reader whose boyfriend isn’t ready to marry her yet, but offered to pay for her egg-freezing.
Read the full response from Abigail Shrier at the link in our bio or at TheFP.com.
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- How Mamdani's Socialism Ends
- Runtime
- 1:48
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Most young people hear “socialism” and think of “freezing the rent” and Zohran Mamdani jumping into a town pool, but as Marian L. Tupy explains, that’s never where socialism ends.
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel or at TheFP.com.
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- The Political Cost of Socialism
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Economist Marian L. Tupy experienced socialism firsthand during his childhood in Czechoslovakia.
He explains that under socialism you don’t just lose your economic freedom; you also lose your political liberty: “When socialists fail to deliver on their promises and people become unhappy and revolt, to keep socialism going the revolt has to be suppressed.”
Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.
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- The AI star of RushTok
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Earlier this month, a 19-year-old, curly-haired student named Janie went through Bama Rush, the University of Alabama’s annual sorority recruitment.
Just like thousands of other girls, she posted about the process and clips fumbling her way through trending dances on social media.
There was just one catch. Janie wasn't real.
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- Editors Killed My Story on Trans Athletes. I Resigned.
- Runtime
- 30:51
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Matt Calkins spent 11 years as a sports columnist for The Seattle Times. Last week, he resigned after the paper refused to publish a column with a pretty basic thesis: that supporting the separation of biological males and females in sports doesn’t make you transphobic.
But Calkins says the final column wasn’t a one-off but the breaking point in a pattern of silencing dissenting voices. He describes a newsroom that changed dramatically over his tenure, especially after 2016, when what started as small edits to his columns turned into a pattern of spiked stories, sidelined pitches, and pressure to write pieces that aligned with the worldview of his paper. He says one editor told him to think about being “on the right side of history” after Calkins fought for one of his stories to be published.
The piece that finally pushed him out came after a rally outside a Seattle Storm game in support of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, who has publicly opposed transg...
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- Overpopulation Is a Myth
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Overpopulation is a myth, according to economist Marian L. Tupy.
The public assumes that adding more people to the world means the resources we share will become scarcer, but the evidence shows the opposite: As the world’s population has grown, resources have become more abundant.
He calls this phenomenon “superabundance.”
Watch “The ‘Overpopulation’ Myth” at our YouTube channel.
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- The Psychology of Internet Trolls
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- What makes someone an online troll? It’s not just a bad habit. Trolls are a specific personality type that blends narcissism, manipulation, psychopathy, and sadism, says professor Arthur Brooks.
What should the rest of us do? The answer, he says, is simple: Don’t engage.
Read Arthur Brooks’s column at TheFP.com.
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- The Inevitable Rise of Violence
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former progressive activist Sabrina Joy Stevens warns that years of fear-inducing rhetoric on the left has devastating real-world consequences.
Constantly tell people they face an existential threat—in Donald Trump, Charlie Kirk, Brian Thompson—and eventually, some will take you seriously: “Voting is not enough for me anymore. I’m going to pick up a gun and solve the problem.”
Full interview: https://youtu.be/2noJMZYEQeQ
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- The Doomers Are Lying To You
- Runtime
- 41:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- You've heard it all before: The world is overcrowded. Resources are running out. Capitalism is failing. The planet is doomed.
Or is it?
Marian Tupy, author of Superabundance, joins Lucy Biggers to make the data-driven case for optimism—and explain why more people, more freedom, and more innovation may continue to make the world a better place.
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- My Teenage Daughter Hates My Boyfriend
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- A reader’s teenage daughter won’t accept her boyfriend, but seems to accept her father’s girlfriend without a problem.
Read the full response from Abigail Shrier at the link in our bio or at TheFP.com.
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- The Moms of TikTok Have Gone Insane
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Unlike the “masculinity crisis,” when women perform the exact same thing with public displays of rage, filmed for an audience, monetized by the algorithm, we don't call it a crisis. We call it brave. We call it liberation.
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- Is "Wokeness" Over?
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- “This is not over.” Former progressive activist Sabrina Joy Stevens draws a direct line between the “woke” ideology of 2020 and rising political violence today:
Once you’ve “purity purged” every moderate from your movement, “the people who are still bought into it are really bought into it…and they are taking that rhetoric to its logical conclusion.”
Full interview available on YouTube.
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- How AI Is Killing Roller Coasters
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- AI killed the roller coasters. Now Silicon Valley's only amusement park is closing.
Read Josh Code's piece on how his childhood amusement park is shutting down after 50 years: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-last-roller-coaster-in-silicon-valley-amusement-park-data-center
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- Former Bernie Sanders Campaign Staffer Tell Jews to Stand Up
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- "I worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign. My former boss, and the broader left-wing activist infrastructure that surrounds him are actively fueling antisemitism in this country."
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- What Does Gen Z Get Wrong About Dating?
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- What does Gen Z get wrong about dating?
Read more advice from Abigail Shrier at TheFP.com.
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- New Data Undermines Claims of Gaza Famine
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In August 2025, Gaza was officially declared famine-stricken. Now, a year later, new rigorous data says that the territory has one of the region’s lowest levels of severe child malnutrition.
Olivia Reingold reports on the Unicef-led data that has triggered a debate over whether the original declaration was correct.
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- Confessions of a Social Justice Warrior
- Runtime
- 47:52
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former progressive activist Sabrina Joy Stevens spent nearly two decades inside the world of left-wing activism—working across education, women’s rights, racial justice, and political advocacy.
In this episode of Confessions, she explains how an ideology built around oppressors and victims shaped her worldview, why the contradictions she witnessed during 2020 finally pushed her to question it, and what happened when she walked away. She also reflects on the forces keeping progressive activism alive—from nonprofit incentives and ideological conformity to grievance politics—and why she believes its influence is far from over.
Sabrina's substack: https://sabrinajoystevens.substack.com/
Follow her on socials: @realsabijoy on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube
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- Is Gambling Ruining Young People's Future?
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Gen Z has a new investment strategy: sports betting. This generation is increasingly treating sportsbooks and prediction markets as part of their long-term financial planning. How did we get here?
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- The UK Tells Asylum Seekers Not To R*pe
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The British government has published a guide for asylum seekers about gender equality, domestic abuse, sex and consent, and respect in public.
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- Fauci Denies He Wanted to Close Schools
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Dr. Fauci denies that he wanted to close schools during the Covid-19 pandemic. 1,000 pages of his diary tells a different story.
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- Why Would Fauci Keep His Diary on a Government Computer?
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Why did Dr. Fauci put all his self-obsessed thoughts to paper...on a government computer, no less?
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- Women Are Identifying with the Mom Who Killed Her 3 Children
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Lindsay Clancy killed her three children. She's admitted that she did, it's not in dispute. Instead, her trial centers on the question of whether she's not just guilty but culpable, or whether she was so deranged by postpartum psychosis that she can't be held criminally responsible for the murders.
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- A City's War on Surveillance Cameras
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Flock Safety's 100,000+ license plate cameras are supposed to fight crime—but from Troy, NY to cities nationwide, people are pushing back hard, and River Page went to find out why.
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- The Lies Uncovered in the Fauci Diaries | Dr. Vinay Prasad
- Runtime
- 48:19
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- It’s not every day that the diary of one of the most polarizing figures of a global pandemic gets released to the public. But that’s exactly what happened last month to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In late July, Senator Rand Paul publicly released over 1,000 pages of notes that Fauci had kept—on a government server—during his time as Covid-19 czar, between 2019 and 2022. Shortly thereafter, Fauci was forced to testify before the Senate, on July 29. Then in early August, Paul and fellow Republican senator Ron Johnson released a set of texts, obtained from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone, between him and other health officials. In the following weeks, the “Fauci Diaries” sparked a new debate over Dr. Fauci’s legacy.
The pages, as well as Fauci’s testimony and subsequently released text messages, revealed an alarming gap between what Fauci told the public and what he told others privately and admitted to himself—about the virus’s possible origins...
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- I'm Gay and My Mom Doesn't Think I Can Raise Kids
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- This reader’s mother had always been supportive of his homosexuality. But she had concerns about two gay men raising a family. What should he do?
Read the full response from Abigail Shrier at TheFP.com.
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- My Daughter Is Having Premarital Sex. What Should I Do?
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- “Numberless women of every faith sleep with their college boyfriends. Most of us don’t call them ‘unmarriageable sluts.’ Most of us call these women ‘mom.’”
Read the full response from Abigail Shrier here: https://www.thefp.com/p/tough-love-my-catholic-daughter-is
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- Why Dems Don't Want to Tax Billionaires
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Should California tax its billionaires, or could this blow up in the state’s face?
Of all the demographics you could tax, billionaires are the one group with a lot of funds to move out of state and avoid a one-time tax. @austynjeffs reports.
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- Would Taxing Billionaires Ruin California?
- Runtime
- 1:21
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Should California tax its billionaires, or could this blow up in the state's face?
Of all the demographics you could tax, billionaires are the one group with a lot of funds to move out of state and avoid a one-time tax. Austyn Jeffs reports.
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- Is AOC Wrong to Freeze Her Eggs?
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez simply talking openly about something that’s already happening—or is she normalizing putting off motherhood?
Dr. Debra Soh tells The Free Press's Rafaela Siewert: “What I noticed actually in the comments on those posts is the number of women who would say, ‘I don't feel so alone now.’”
Watch the full interview at TheFP.com.
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- AOC and the Harsh Reality of Egg Freezing at 36
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's decision to freeze her eggs at 36 sparked debate. Debra Soh gives her credit for being candid about the process—and says more women should know what they’re getting into.
“There are women who go into egg freezing, and they may not fully understand what the drugs are, what they're doing to their body, why they're taking them, and what the true rate of success is," she tells The Free Press's Rafaela Siewert.
"Not only is it really expensive and extremely painful," she adds, "but there are all these side effects that you have, and then you also don't know: Is it actually going to work eventually?”
Watch the full interview at TheFP.com.
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- The High School Not Tackling Antisemitism
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- When Jewish students at an Arlington, Virginia, high school were mocked, threatened, and chased, their desperate requests for help were met with indifference by school officials.
Rupa Subramanya reports.
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- Trad Wives, Girlbosses & the Death of Dating
- Runtime
- 55:18
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a viral video to Instagram, sitting alone with a table of medication in front of her, talking followers through the first steps of her egg-freezing process. She was upfront about why she was sharing it, saying she hoped “to show more depictions of women having full lives in every context and every choice.”
The announcement was met with a firestorm—critics accusing her of putting career, and even an alleged presidential run, ahead of starting a family.
On the one hand, women are better off than ever before—58 percent of college students in the United States are women, and they are out-earning men in cities like New York and Washington, D.C. But on the other, a cultural reckoning is underway: The girlboss ethos of the 2010s is under scrutiny, as many wonder whether climbing the corporate ladder is really better than starting a family.
Today, Rafaela Siewert sits down with sex researcher ...
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- Why Is Everyone Taking Mental-Health Leave?
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Why is everyone taking the day (or the month) off from work?
Mental-health leave has never been easier to get—and never easier to abuse.
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- Did Fauci Mislead America About Covid Miscarriage Risk?
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In private, Anthony Fauci told America's most senior health officials that the Covid vaccine could theoretically be associated with miscarriage. In public, he said there were no red flags.
- Title
- Confessions of a Former DSA Organizer
- Runtime
- 34:36
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- On this latest episode of Confessions, former Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer Jake Altman joins The FP's Maya Sulkin for an inside look at one of the most influential political movements on the American left. Drawing on nearly a decade of experience inside the organization, Altman explains why he joined, the radical revolution that drove him out, and how the DSA transformed from a small group into a major force shaping Democratic party politics.
Jake exposes the movement's internal culture, organizing tactics, and what its growing influence could mean for the future of the Democratic Party.
Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity. The views and opinions expressed by guests of Confessions are solely those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, policies, or positions of Confessions or The Free Press.
- Title
- The Great $20 Burrito Debate
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The Great Burrito Debate: Are $20 burritos a sign of the cost-of-living crisis?
It might be the one thing that defies inflation.
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- Are RFK Jr.'s Fish Cakes Really Under $5?
- Runtime
- 2:50
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- HHS Secretary RFK Jr. just launched a cooking show promising affordable, healthy meals for every family. His first recipe: fish cakes for under $5.
We sent River Page grocery shopping to see if the math checks out.
Read River's full piece on how the recipe turned out at TheFP.com.
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- Democrats Vilified White Men
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former Democratic operative Evan Barker recalls how, during the 2020s, her colleagues explicitly vilified white men. "I would see the men have to self-flagellate."
She says having her son in 2022 made her start to question this ideology within her party.
Watch the full episode on YouTube.
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- Literature professor fired for teaching literature
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Professor Vinita Prabhakar shared an award-winning short story with her freshman English class. The narrator is a drug-using, heavy-drinking Catholic school teacher who gets bored with teaching, and fills up class time talking about her sex life instead.
The University president called the story “political,” and fired her.
And now, she’s suing to get her job back.
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- What El Sayed's Win Says About America
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In 2008, Obama had to renounce his association with an anti-American preacher to win his party’s nomination. In 2026, El-Sayed embraced an anti-American streaming star—and the Democrats didn’t care.
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- Working People Don't Want Handouts
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former Democratic operative Evan Barker grew up in a working-class family in Kansas City, Missouri. She says her family has no interest in handouts and doesn't hate billionaires.
"They don't want everything to be free. They just want better opportunities... and I think Zohran can't fathom that because he's never worked that hard."
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- Working for Abdul El-Sayed
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former Democratic operative Evan Barker reflects on working for Abdul El-Sayed.
"I don't understand what he's doing. All he does is talk about abolishing ICE, AIPAC, and corporate PAC money."
- Title
- Flock Safety cameras don't want anything to do with law-abiding citizens
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Ever feel like you're being watched? You might be right.
But Flock Safety cameras aren't interested in you—unless you're a kidnapper, a thief, or up to no good.
- Title
- Is Hasan Piker's Hype Manufactured?
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- "Hasan Piker and someone like Nick Fuentes are just different flavors of the same thing."
@RealSabiJoy argues that both speak to real grievances—but offer destructive answers.
- Title
- Former Democratic Operative Tells All
- Runtime
- 58:56
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Former Democratic fundraiser Evan Barker spent years working alongside some of the biggest names in progressive politics. In this conversation with Lucy Biggers, she reveals what she witnessed behind the scenes—from campaign fundraising and donor influence to the ideological shifts that ultimately led her to walk away from the Democratic Party and write Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative.
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- Abdul El-Sayed Wants to “Get Money Out of Politics”…Or Does He?
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has attacked his opponent for benefiting from millions in PAC spending. He did not respond when we asked about the nearly $5 million in outside spending supporting his own campaign.
Olivia Reingold reports.
