The Free Press
Is GiveSendGo Incentivizing Hate?
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- Is GiveSendGo Incentivizing Hate?
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- When people involved in controversies need money, they turn to GiveSendGo.
From Kyle Rittenhouse to Karmelo Anthony to Daniel Penny, the platform has raised millions for those at the center of news stories that divide America.
But is the company incentivizing hate?
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- Get in, boys. We're Nixonmaxxing!
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- Get in, boys. We're Nixonmaxxing.
Why is Gen Z suddenly obsessed with our 37th president—the man who resigned in disgrace over Watergate? Mostly, it's a vibe.
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- This Is Dangerous.
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- @JillianMichaels argues that telling young white Americans they’re inherently racist isn’t reducing racism—it’s creating a new generation of it.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/P9tbJEVX9qg
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- Is Ozempic a Miracle Drug?
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Ozempic can help people lose weight. But Jillian Michaels argues there's a better way.
"If we could facilitate an individual's ability to simply eat less food and to simply move more often... we would get all the benefits that these medications provide with none of the side effects."
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/P9tbJEVX9qg
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- Data Centers Don't Need to Be Controversial
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Almost overnight, data centers have emerged as one of the most controversial issues in America. But do they need to be?
Read our full story at TheFP.com.
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- She Only Wanted Two Kids, So I Dumped Her
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- ABIGAIL SHRIER: “Marriage is not about getting a series of deliverables out of the woman you choose"
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- Dr. Fauci's "Dear Diary"
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Over 1,114 pages of Dr. Fauci's "dear diary" have been released, revealing not only the contrast between what he said publicly and admitted privately during the Covid-19 pandemic, but also a fame-obsessed man who cozied up to a media complicit in his untruths
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- The Ideology Responsible For The Berlin Attack
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Last weekend in Germany, a terrorist attacked a Pride parade in Berlin.
But Germans still seem unable to call out the ideology that caused it. Esther Krakue reports.
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- Can I tell my daughter she's fat?
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- “Can I tell my daughter she’s gotten fat?”
A mom wants to know if she can encourage her mid-20s kid to ‘actively lose weight. @AbigailShrierxo weighs in.
Read Abigail’s full piece at TheFP.com/tough-love.
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- Meet the nuns suing New York
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- A group of nuns that provide care to the terminally ill are suing the state of New York.
On Friday, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne filed a complaint over the state’s new assisted dying law, arguing it forces religious workers to compromise their faith.
Madeleine Long got the exclusive on their lawsuit.
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- California's OTHER failed train line
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- California’s struggle to build high-speed rail has been well-publicized, but did you know there’s a second train line that's also not getting built?
Austyn Jeffs investigates Brightline West, a rail project that’s supposed to link Las Vegas to California in three years’ time, but not a single foot of track has been laid.
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- Curtis Sliwa tries to save Central Park's horses
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Last month, 18-year-old tourist Romanch Mahajan was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park and killed. Now people—including Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa—are advocating for "Romanch's Law," which would ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City. This push comes amid other complaints about mistreatment of the horses.
We talked with Curtis Sliwa about what he's trying to do to save the horses in Central Park.
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- There's been a gay cruising scandal in international waters
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- There’s been a gay cruising scandal in international waters—but it’s not what you think. Earlier this month, a cruise ship called Scarlet Lady carrying 2000 gays and Patti LuPone was barred from docking in Turkey and Egypt.
But there’s something missing from the story: the obvious cause of the ship’s rejection.
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- If Mamdani froze the rent, why did NYC rent hit an all-time high?
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Mamdani “froze the rent.” So why did NYC rent just hit an all-time high? We break down exactly why your rent keeps climbing.
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- America's politicians are using Israelis as props
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- “They’re using us as props… It’s disgusting.”
Haviv Rettig Gur argues American politicians like Ro Khanna and Rahm Emanuel have turned Israelis and Palestinians into stage props for their own, self-serving political theater.
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- Ro Khanna is a liar
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- “It’s an extremely irrelevant event… The congressman is a lying liar.”
Haviv Rettig Gur says Representative Ro Khanna grossly exaggerated what happened during his West Bank visit for his own political purposes.
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- Haviv Rettig Gur: Ro Khanna Is LYING About His Israel Detainment
- Runtime
- 44:05
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Representative Ro Khanna's recent visit to the West Bank ignited a political firestorm after he alleged that Israeli settlers detained his delegation while Israeli security forces stood by. But did events unfold the way they were initially described?
Journalist Haviv Rettig Gur joins Rafaela Siewert to examine the facts of the incident, the competing narratives that emerged online, and what the controversy reveals about the growing role of Israel in American politics. Their conversation explores the incentives driving political messaging, the information war surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and why debates over Israel have become increasingly central to the future of the Democratic Party.
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- What Has The Media Missed About Lyndsey Fifield's Story?
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- What has the media frenzy missed about Lyndsey Fifield’s story?
“I have been totally transformed. My life is radically different,” said Fifield, one of Platner’s ex-girlfriends who accused him of physical abuse, to The Free Press’s Frannie Block.
Read more of the story at TheFP.com.
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- Who is Graham Platner?
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Who is Graham Platner?
He is a “dangerous, charismatic, charming, delusional narcissist,” said Lyndsey Fifield, an ex-girlfriend of Platner’s who has accused him of physical abuse.
“That’s who he was when we dated, and that’s who he is still today—not contrite, not reflecting, not taking accountability, but doubling down and claiming that none of this ever happened, and he’s the victim,” she added.
Fifield spoke with The Free Press’s Frannie Block about her relationship with Platner and his decision to suspend his campaign.
Read more of the full story at TheFP.com.
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- Lyndsey Fifield on Graham Platner Dropping Out
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- How does Lyndsey Fifield, one of Graham Platner's accusers, feel now that he's dropped out?
"This isn't a victory," she told The Free Press's Frannie Block.
Read more at TheFP.com.
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- Little Italy forgotten by Mayor Mamdani as immigrant neighborhood
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani released his map of New York City’s “immigrant enclaves.” Except, he forgot a few spots.
Little Italy—one of the oldest immigrant communities in New York City—didn’t make the cut.
Here’s what the Italian-Americans whose families have been a part of Little Italy's history had to say about it.
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- Trump’s ‘Ceasefire’ Collapses | Niall Ferguson
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- 31:32
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Is the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran over? Is the memorandum of understanding dead? On Wednesday, those questions were put to President Donald Trump at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, a gathering that came on the heels of renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.
Here, to make sense of the fragile state of the strait, the stalled negotiations in Iran, and the big ticket questions about the European alliance, Turkey, and China, is Free Press columnist Niall Ferguson. He breaks down how the ceasefire fell apart, why the pathway to managing the Strait of Hormuz is contingent on cooperation from the Gulf States, and what the new status quo looks like—plus: Will the U.S. let Turkey buy F-35 fighter jets, after it was previously barred from doing so? How have hostilities between Russia and Ukraine escalated? And what is China learning from the sidelines?
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- What's a Death Doula?
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- In an overstressed, understaffed system of care for dying patients, a new kind of caregiver is stepping in—one who wants to bring humanity back to a process that’s grown cold and corporate. Even Nicole Kidman has signed on.
These are caregivers who help people die. They’ll plan your funeral, walk you through medically assisted dying laws, and sit with you at the end.
They’re called death doulas, and they’re on the rise across America. Kat Rosenfield spoke to some of them for her column in The Free Press this week.
Read the full story at TheFP.com.
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- Former Democratic operative says socialism will spread
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Former progressive fundraiser Evan Barker says the DSA wave is just the beginning.
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- How Jonni Skinner Was Pressured to Transition
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Detransitioner Jonni Skinner’s mother was asked, like many other parents: “Would you rather have a living daughter, or a dead son?”
Maya Sulkin sat down with him to discuss how his mother was pressured to help him start hormone therapy, with a doctor even suggesting he could be removed from her custody.
Watch the new episode of “Confessions” now: https://bit.ly/3SCAZ20
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- SCOTUS Slaps Down Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Two courtroom defeats for the Trump administration in a single week. Esther Krakue breaks down what the Supreme Court actually ruled—and why it matters heading into the midterms.
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- Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Will Bankrupt This Landlord
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- 8:40
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- That’s New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani delivering on his campaign promise to “freeze the rent.” Starting October 1 2026, one- and two-year renewal leases on rent-stabilized apartments will be frozen, impacting 1 million rent-stabilized units in the city.
It’s easy to understand why a lot of New Yorkers voted for this policy. Rent in NYC is notoriously unaffordable.
The implication is that landlords are to blame. They’re evil capitalists sitting on piles of cash, exploiting their vulnerable tenants. But the truth is much more complex.
This March Lucy Biggers visited Jose Tur is a 31 year old Cuban-American who is a landlord of a building in Washington Heights. He complicates the simple "oppressor vs. oppressed” narrative Mamdani’s team would like us to believe.
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- Confessions of a De-transitioner
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- 1:02:38
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- 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 blockers doubled. Between 2013 and 2020, the rate at which teenage girls underwent double mastectomies increased thirteenfold. And pediatric gender clinics grew from a small handful nationwide to over a hundred.
In many cases, parents weren’t looking to transition their children. Their child was in distress, they were scared, and they went to doctors for help. They were told the drugs were safe, the effects were reversible—and, in many cases, that these treatments were the only thing standing between their child and suicide.
Now, many of those children are adults. Some say they were never fully informed about the long-term consequences of these interventions. They’re ...
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- How Did Dave Portnoy Start Barstool?
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- In 1999, a kid named Dave Portnoy graduated from college with no real skills and two passions: sports and gambling. What did he do? He founded Barstool Sports.
Read more of Dave’s story in a special excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Cancel Me If You Can,” exclusively at TheFP.com.
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- A Night with Iran's Soccer Team
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Austyn Jeffs spent the night with the Iranian national soccer team—in Tijuana, Mexico.
“Do citizens of a corrupt and violent regime represent their government?” Jeffs asks. “I don’t think there’s an easy answer.”
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- Mamdani-Backed Socialists Sweep New York. What Now? | Douglas Murray, Mark Halperin, Reihan Salam
- Runtime
- 1:01:48
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- On Tuesday night, the democratic socialists swept New York.
In a series of closely watched congressional primaries, all three candidates endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani defeated more moderate rivals, including two incumbents. Their victories, which in heavily blue districts all but guarantee their election to the House of Representatives come November, sent shock waves through the Democratic Party.
The winners include former City Comptroller Brad Lander, who favors the complete abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; democratic socialist and New York State Assemblymember Claire Valdez, who also supports abolishing ICE and has plastered the words “Free Palestine” on her campaign signs; and community organizer and democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, who has refused to condemn Hamas, was part of a student group at Columbia that has since called for “Death to America,” and said that a world without borders, prisons, and police is...
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- How low will the Democrats go to defend Graham Platner?
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- How low will the Democrats go to defend Graham Platner?
Batya Ungar-Sargon breaks down why U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is the “perfect candidate” to reveal that everything the left said about the right was “pure projection.”
Watch the full episode with Batya and Rafaela on YouTube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-s4AwORIWY
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- When should American Jews stop giving their political opponents the benefit of the doubt?
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- When should American Jews stop giving their political opponents the benefit of the doubt?
Batya Ungar-Sargon calls out the left for expecting American Jews to “denounce their own people, to get on their knees and humiliate themselves, in order to be a member in good standing.”
Watch the full episode with Batya and Rafaela on YouTube now: https://bit.ly/4eja03W
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- Did Trump Surrender to Iran? | Haviv Rettig Gur
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- 1:07:32
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump and Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. The agreement set up a 60-day period of negotiations and covers the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, frozen funds, sanctions relief, Iranian oil exports, Lebanon, and more.
In the hours since, figures across the political spectrum have fiercely debated whether the deal is good for the U.S.—or if it represents a form of capitulation to the Iranian regime. So we went to Free Press Middle East analyst Haviv Rettig Gur to break it all down: how the strait will be opened, what the nuclear concessions are, and how much money Iran could be getting; the biggest concerns for the U.S. and Israel, and the state of their relationship; why Trump’s team wasn’t prepared for the war’s true costs; what’s next for the Gulf States; and who the real winner will be when the dust finally settles.
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- What ‘The Future Is Female’ Has Meant for Men
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- 55:58
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- For decades, the fight for gender equality has squarely focused on lifting women up—in the workplace, politics, and beyond.
But according to Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, it’s the men who now need support.
From childhood, boys are falling behind in school. Men are trailing women in college completion by an even wider margin than existed (in the opposite direction) when Title IX became law in 1972. They also die by suicide about four times more often, with especially troubling increases among younger men over the past two decades.
In this episode, Reeves sits down with Shilo Brooks to discuss why the struggles facing boys and men have become politically impossible to discuss, why they need to stop hearing that “the future is female” and that their masculinity is “toxic,” and what the specific policies are that he believes will help them.
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- Inside the Iran-New Zealand World Cup Match
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- The Iranian soccer team is playing on U.S. soil for the first time since the two countries went to war.
Austyn Jeffs went to the team's opening World Cup match against New Zealand in Los Angeles to ask fans what the team stands for.
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- Batya Ungar-Sargon: The Left Abandoned Its Jews
- Runtime
- 47:58
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Over the past several years, American Jews have watched as prejudice against their community has risen precipitously. In 2025, a string of violence events began to unfold: In April, someone tried to set fire to Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s home. In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were gunned down by a self-identified leftist who said he “did it for Palestine.” The next month, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a free-the-hostages rally in Colorado, leaving 12 injured and one 82-year-old killed. Meanwhile, across the country, protests calling to “globalize the intifada” and destroy the state of Israel have persisted and spread.
While Jew hatred spans the political spectrum, each of these instances came from the radical left, where antisemitic sentiments have spread in the wake of October 7. Which raises a once unthinkable question: For over a century, American Jews were among the Democratic Party’s most devoted...
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- What World Cup Tourists Love About America
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Millions of tourists are coming to the U.S. for the World Cup, so we asked them what they love most about our country.
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- "No Objectives Achieved." Karim Sadjadpour on Trump's Failed War
- Runtime
- 33:52
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” So wrote President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Sunday. After weeks of back-and-forth, the announcement seemed to herald the end to a bloody conflict that has lasted more than 100 days.
In the following hours, the public learned that the U.S. had reached a memorandum of understanding with Iran—reportedly, a one-to-two-page document seeking to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with nuclear negotiations to follow.
But as the details of the agreement emerge, many are asking: Is this deal a capitulation to the Iranian regime?
Beyond that: How will both sides negotiate when there’s no trust? What does regime survival actually mean for Tehran? Will the world welcome Iran back into the global economy in light of a deal? What about Iran’s ballistic missile program and its proxies—conspicuously absent from any discussions? Wi...
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- David Mamet’s Theory of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
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- 20:02
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- After hearing about our podcast, the acclaimed playwright sent Joe Nocera a letter outlining his own theory of the crime—one that puts Charles Lindbergh at the center of the mystery.
The playwright, screenwriter, and Free Press cartoonist explains why he believes the most famous kidnapping in American history may not have been a kidnapping at all.
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- Douglas Murray is Back in The Free Press
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Douglas Murray is back.
He is joining The Free Press as a columnist writing in our pages on the biggest issues of the day, every week.
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- The Fight Over America’s Founding Words | Walter Isaacson
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- 51:15
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
In a special conversation recorded at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson discusses his new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, and the extraordinary story behind the Declaration of Independence’s most famous line.
What happened behind the scenes as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the other founders argued over, revised, and refined the words that would become America’s founding creed?
Plus: the tension between individual liberty and the common good, the complicated relationship between Jefferson and Adams, and the enduring challenge of living up to ideals that were revolutionary in 1776 and remain aspirational today.
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- Homeless Greet World Cup Arrivals at LAX
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- As visitors arrive in Los Angeles for the World Cup, The FP's Austyn Jeffs visited LAX to see the state of homelessness that will greet fans upon arrival.
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- Has the Iran War Been Worth It?
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Has the war in Iran been worth it?
Niall Ferguson says history’s verdict depends on the fine print of the peace agreement—and whether the China-led axis of power, including Russia and North Korea, emerges stronger when the dust settles.
“If they are the net winners of Trump’s second term, the verdict of history is not going to be kind.”
Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/pZWc1KgDZjQ
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- The Real Root Cause of Islamophobia
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- “The bad actions of Muslims are the root cause of Islamophobia,” says former jihadist Mubin Shaikh.
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- Confessions of a Former Jihadist
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- After recruiting young men into jihadist networks and cheering on 9/11, former extremist Mubin Shaikh now works to stop the radicalization of the next generation.
He speaks with Maya Sulkin on the latest episode of Confessions.
Watch it now on The Free Press’s YouTube. Or go to TheFP.com.
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- Confessions of a Former Jihadist
- Runtime
- 51:11
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Mubin Shaikh grew up in Toronto, in a devout Muslim family, caught between two worlds he couldn’t reconcile. By day, he was a public school kid with non-Muslim friends, playing sports and going to parties. At night, he sat in Quran class, where he was beaten with a stick for mispronouncing Arabic words. The identity crisis that built slowly through his childhood came to a head at 19, sending him on a four-month trip to India and Pakistan—and leading to a chance encounter with the Taliban.
They had AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades, and belts of ammunition piled at their feet. When Shaikh gave them his rehearsed religious pitch—that success in this life and the next came from following God’s commandments—one of them picked up his rifle and said: Success comes from this. In that moment, something that had been theoretical and abstract became viscerally, thrillingly real. Shaikh was captivated.
When he returned to Canada, he began recruiting young men i...
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- Bibi and Trump Spar Publicly
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Niall Ferguson weighs in on the latest public dispute between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu: "What's going on privately is almost certainly quite different."
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- Has the U.S. Lost the Iran War? | Niall Ferguson
- Runtime
- 39:08
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- On Sunday, the war with Iran reignited—yet again. Iran fired a ballistic missile barrage at Israel, a move that followed Israel’s targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
President Trump urged Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike back. But Netanyahu did anyway—prompting observers everywhere to ask: Did Bibi just defy the president? Did the two reach some other agreement behind closed doors? What does any of it tell us about the state of the U.S.-Israel relationship? And is this war winding down, or are we on the path to a protracted conflict? On Tuesday, Trump vowed to retaliate against Iran after an Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz—demonstrating once again the precarious nature of the conflict.
Today I’m joined by Free Press columnist and historian Niall Ferguson to make sense of this moment.
We dig into the multiple rounds of negotiations aimed at ending the war, all of which have failed; the question ...
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- Qatar is Trying to Buy More iInfluence Than We Thought
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Qatar is Trying to Buy More Influence Than We Thought
New analysis concludes that Qatar has spent over $400 billion in nearly every corner of the U.S., from the defense industry to disaster relief.
Frannie Block reports.

