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Why Young People Should Be Morally Ambitious
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- Why Young People Should Be Morally Ambitious
- Runtime
- 2:22
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Young people need to break away from “safe” careers and be more “morally ambitious”—to pick bigger problems to solve, says Rutger Bregman.
“Those who believe in my values, liberal values, the problem is they’re not very ambitious.”
He speaks with Coleman Hughes on the promising history of moral progress in the West—from the suffragettes to the abolitionists—and how young people can bring this great tradition into the future.
Watch the full conversation at TheFP.com.
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- Confessions of a Former Climate Activist
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Once activism becomes your identity, it’s hard to walk away.
Lucy Biggers says climate activism made her feel like “a good person” on “the right side of history”—and “good people don’t question the climate narrative.” Leaving meant losing her moral self-image. “It took me five years between questioning and leaving.”
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- Why Were There 200 Bombings in Sweden in 2025?
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Last year, Sweden saw almost 200 bombings—more than any other country in Europe. But they were not acts of terrorism; they were linked to the country’s surge in gang-related crime.
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- Confessions of a Former Climate Activist
- Runtime
- 35:48
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
Before I met Lucy at The Free Press offices, she was fighting to ban plastic straws and posing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg. In today’s Confession, Lucy tells us about her time in the climate movement, when she became a prominent voice on social media. She protested the Dakota Access Pipeline and pushed for the Green New Deal to be passed.
Now, Lucy describes herself as a climate realist. She doesn’t think the world is going to implode because the Earth is heating up, and she definitely doesn’t think paper straws are going to save us. In our conversation, we talk about the moment she started to question the climate movement, what it took to walk away from the cause she defined herself by, and what the science tells us now about climate change.
To make sure you don’t miss the next installment of Confessions, subscribe to our YouTube channel....
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- They Were Called “Transphobes” for Rejecting Child Transition—Now They’re Vindicated.
- Runtime
- 49:08
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- For much of the past decade, parents of children distressed about their gender were asked by medical providers: "Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?”
Parents and communities were told it was their responsibility to affirm the identity of every child who said they were transgender and help secure a medical treatment plan. A wave of children in the United States were placed on puberty blockers and, in some cases, medically transitioned with hormones and irreversible surgeries—despite the growing number of young people saying they were harmed by such treatment.
Last week, a jury awarded $2 million in damages to a detransitioner, Fox Varian, who sued her psychologist and surgeon after her breasts were removed at age 16. Three years later, she regretted the surgery and returned to identifying as female.
Varian’s is one of many such stories. At The Free Press we’ve reported extensively on children who transitioned and later detr...
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- Suzy Weiss LOVED Wuthering Heights
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- The Truth About the SAVE Act
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The SAVE Act is now headed to the Senate. You may have seen claims that, if passed, it will “prevent married women from voting” and “disenfranchise 21 million people.” So what’s the truth?
Anthony Rispo breaks it down.
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- Stop Asking Olympians How They Feel About America
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Can reporters please stop asking Olympians how they feel about America?
“Even if you dislike certain U.S. policies, we’re hardly the most controversial country on the Olympic stage. China, Iran, the UAE? No one is grilling their athletes about detention camps or morality police.”
Read the rest from @KatRosenfield at the link in our bio or at TheFP.com.
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- The Secret Lives of Ordinary People
- Runtime
- 52:18
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Dylan Thomas is one of the 20th century’s legendary poets.
In this episode, English journalist David Aaronovitch joins Shilo to discuss Thomas’ 1954 play Under Milk Wood, a portrait of a small Welsh seaside town, originally produced for radio.
With rich, musical language, Thomas reveals the secret interior lives of the villagers—their dreams, lusts, resentments, and longings—without condescension, inviting the listener to see that “these people are you” and to recognize one’s own hidden thoughts in even the most comic or disturbing characters.
They discuss how the play is exceptional in a flattened, cliché-ridden culture obsessed with exterior image and dismissive of the complexity of ordinary people.
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- Jacob Elordi Takes Himself Too Seriously
- Runtime
- 2:26
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Jacob Elordi, please stop pretending you’re a philosopher-poet whose above the industry and touch some grass.”
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- Richard Hanania Explains How He Questioned His Racist Beliefs
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- At 19 years old, Richard Hanania was posting racist and misogynistic things online. But eventually, he says, “reality refuted a lot of things I believed back then.”
Richard Hanania didn’t just wake up and stop holding racist opinions. Instead, it was a gradual process of updating his beliefs by observing the evidence.
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- The Epstein Tapes: New footage of Ghislaine Maxwell
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Hidden in the latest batch of Epstein files were clips of his closest accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
As part of our reporting into the Epstein Tapes, we’re publishing footage of Maxwell from her 2016 deposition for the civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre against her and Epstein.
You can watch the full footage at TheFP.com
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- Previously Buried Ghislaine Maxwell Testimony | The Epstein Tapes
- Runtime
- 5:36
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Buried among the hundreds of videos in the latest release of the Epstein files is the footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s most notorious accomplice and the only person alive who knows the true extent of his crimes: Ghislaine Maxwell.
These clips are from Maxwell’s 2016 deposition, part of a civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre, who accused Maxwell and Epstein of running a sex-trafficking operation that abused her when she was a minor.
The Free Press is publishing the newly released clips in chronological order.
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- Meet the Ukrainian Refugees Being Forced Out of the U.S.
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- They fled war and experienced the American Dream. Now many Ukrainians must give it all up as their humanitarian parole is set to expire.
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- He Was Exposed as an Alt Right Troll Who Made Racist Posts
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- By the time HuffPost had uncovered @RichardHanania’s extremist past, during which he wrote under a pen name, he said it was a bit of a relief.
“This was kind of this cloud that was hanging over me, and eventually it was going to come up.”
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- What I Learned Watching The Epstein Tapes
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- There are 14 hours of video buried deep in the DOJ’s latest Epstein files release.
We watched all of them.
Now you can too.
Watch the full tapes at the link in our bio.
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- The Complete Epstein Tapes | Dataset 10 | Part 2
- Runtime
- 5:04:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On January 30, 2026, the DOJ released more than three million pages of material related to Jeffrey Epstein. But very few of the more than 2,000 video files included in the release have been seen by the public. That’s because they are stored in a way that makes them very hard to find or browse.
The Free Press wanted to make this archive more easily viewable for the public, so viewers can understand this story for themselves.
The Free Press downloaded the most important set of video files:
Data Set 10.
It contains the majority of the video files in the release, and we are publishing the entirety of the 14 hours of footage, excluding only obvious duplicates. These are the Epstein Tapes. Viewer discretion is advised.
All redactions were done by the DOJ.
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- The Complete Epstein Tapes | Dataset 10 | Part 1
- Runtime
- 8:29:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On January 30, 2026, the DOJ released more than three million pages of material related to Jeffrey Epstein. But very few of the more than 2,000 video files included in the release have been seen by the public. That’s because they are stored in a way that makes them very hard to find or browse.
The Free Press wanted to make this archive more easily viewable for the public, so viewers can understand this story for themselves.
The Free Press downloaded the most important set of video files:
Data Set 10.
It contains the majority of the video files in the release, and we are publishing the entirety of the 14 hours of footage, excluding only obvious duplicates. These are the Epstein Tapes. Viewer discretion is advised.
All redactions were done by the DOJ.
To comply with YouTube community guidelines, a segment of this video has been removed. To see the full video, go to https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-the-jeffrey-ep...
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- I Watched 14 Hours of Epstein Videos. Here’s What I Saw.
- Runtime
- 8:35
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- On January 30, 2026, the Department of Justice released more than three million files related to Jeffrey Epstein. And buried within that are roughly 2,000 previously unpublished videos. But while they’re technically public, they are stored in a way that makes them very hard to find or browse.
To watch these videos, the public has two choices: download hundreds of gigabytes of data— or click through hundreds of web pages, one by one.
The Free Press's Tanya Lukyanova did both.
The vast majority of videos—and by far the most revealing ones—are in Data Set 10. These are videos seized from Epstein’s devices: footage he recorded himself, received from others, or downloaded from the internet.
All redactions were done by the DOJ. Viewer discretion is advised.
The DOJ dumped 14 hours of video into the Epstein files. For the first time, The Free Press put them all in one place.
Watch Part 1: https://www.thefp.com/...
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- How Big Food—and Bad Policy—Destroyed Our Health | Dr. Mark Hyman
- Runtime
- 57:43
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- If you watched the Super Bowl, you may have seen the Make America Healthy Again commercial. It featured Mike Tyson speaking about his sister Denise, who died at 25 from a heart attack linked to obesity. Tyson also spoke candidly about formerly weighing 345 pounds and experiencing suicidal thoughts. And he’s not alone: Roughly 40 percent of Americans are obese, and six in 10 live with at least one chronic disease.
The message of the ad was clear: “Processed food kills.” And as Tyson confesses, his addiction to junk food nearly cost him his life.
But one American doctor has been sounding this alarm for years. Dr. Mark Hyman has written 15 books, hosts the hit podcast The Dr. Hyman Show, and is now a contributor at CBS News. His company, Function Health, uses comprehensive lab testing to empower people to better understand what’s happening inside their bodies. He has also just published a new book, Food Fix Uncensored, an updated and revised version of hi...
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- Confessions of a Former Right-Wing Extremist
- Runtime
- 51:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
Is changing your mind a sign of intellectual honesty—or betrayal? These days, it can feel like most people think it’s the latter. We live in an age where rethinking a position becomes a gotcha moment—a chance for someone to pull up your old social media posts to prove you’re a hypocrite or a fraud. The pressure to not admit to changing your mind, to stick to your guns, has never been greater.
But the ability to change your mind is a sign that you are thinking for yourself. It takes curiosity, honesty, courage, and humility. And so it is worth understanding how it happens.
That’s why we’re launching a new video interview series called Confessions.
In each episode, I sit down with someone who has abandoned a belief that was once central to who they were: a former climate activist who now thinks the movement has lost the plot; an anti-Israel p...
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- Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Admits to Having Male Chromosome
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- It turns out Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has a male chromosone after all.
"Reality eventually catches up even if it takes years for people to admit what others were shouted down for saying."
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- Mamdani Replaces Head of Antisemitism Task Force
- Runtime
- 2:52
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The new mayor replaced a “proud Zionist” with a controversial liberal activist to lead New York City’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.
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- BREAKING: Mamdani Fires Head of Anti-Semitism Task Force
- Runtime
- 5:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
- Title
- Why David Mamet Hates Salinger, Steinbeck—and School
- Runtime
- 1:01:19
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Mamet spent his childhood cutting class and reading at the local library. His first pick was Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, which he pulled off the shelves at just 11 years old.
Decades later, David thinks the book is terrible, its author “a horrible writer,” and its heroine an insufferable busybody. In this episode, Shilo pushes back, defending the novel and its protagonist.
From there the conversation explodes into a larger discussion about taste, canon, authority, why David distrusts teachers, critics, and arts institutions that try to tell the public what’s good for them, and how he decides what’s worth reading—or throwing across the room.
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- Gas Prices in California are DOUBLE Arizona
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Gas prices in California are nearly double the cost of those in neighboring Arizona.
“As a lifelong Californian I always thought we were being price gouged by the oil companies. It turns out: We’re being price gouged by the state.”
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- A Trump Voter Appalled by ICE
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Trump voter Marielle Feldberg explains why she's appalled by ICE.
Read more at TheFP.com.
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- Questioning youth gender medicine got her fired.
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Glenna Goldis sits down with Emily Yoffe to discuss why opposing ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors was worth losing her job under New York attorney general Letitia James.
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- Minnesota students ditched high school today to attend anti-ICE protest.
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- Why is the UK allowing a convicted terrorist to run for local office?
- Runtime
- 1:37
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- What Minneapolis Gun Owners Think of Alex Pretti
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- 3:17
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
In the same VFW dining hall just north of Minneapolis, two gun owners are worlds apart on the topic of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse shot to death in a scuffle with border patrol agents on Saturday.
“I don’t understand why he had to have a weapon there that day,” said David Manley, an 85-year-old retired pipefitter and lifelong Republican, who said he owns five firearms.
Everything he knows about guns, Manley said, he learned from his father. Going to a protest with a loaded gun is not something his father ever would have advised.
Across the room, another gun owner named Jim Nordlocken, a 73-year-old former Teamster, told us he was so incensed at the killing of Pretti that he considered going downtown to protest for the first time.
“My wife would kill me,” he said, “but I thought about it—to stand up for freedom.”
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- Can comedy ever cross the line?
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- She Challenged Gender Orthodoxy—and New York Fired Her
- Runtime
- 28:28
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/3DmLpLi
Until last week, Glenna Goldis was an assistant attorney general for the state of New York in the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. Then, she was fired by New York attorney general Letitia James for opposing so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. In her piece for The Free Press this week, Glenna wrote about how she came to see childhood gender transition as a form of consumer fraud built on deceptive claims, and how sounding the alarm led to her firing.
I sat down with Glenna to discuss her investigation into pediatric gender medicine, the free-speech fight that followed, and her thoughts on why the Democratic establishment continues to support these interventions while ignoring medical evidence and public opinion.
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- Woke Activist & Incel: An Uncommon Romance
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- Fear Is Now Just Part of the Job for Politicians
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- In 2025 alone, Capitol Police investigated nearly 15,000 threats against members of Congress, their families, staff, and the Capitol complex.
For members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, fear for their physical safety is now a permanent part of the job.
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- Colin Quinn: Incels, Woke Activists, and Peaking at 14
- Runtime
- 51:02
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- In this episode, legendary comic Colin Quinn dives into a cult classic that still makes him cry with laughter: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.
The novel follows the misadventures of an overweight, pretentious misanthrope still living with his mother in 1960s New Orleans. It’s a book that turns fart jokes into high art. It’s also, somehow, a love story between a fat incel and a woke activist—a seemingly absurd pairing that just may be a prescient solution to our modern polarization problem.
Plus, Colin and Shilo dig into the parallels between great comic writing and great stand-up: Both give language to things audiences half-know but have never quite articulated, making the familiar suddenly, painfully funny.
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- Free Speech is Under Attack in the United Kingdom.
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Free speech is under attack in the United Kingdom. Esther Krakue reports on the UK Employment Rights Act that criminalizes upsetting remarks and behavior.
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- MINNEAPOLIS: REALITY ON THE GROUND
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- "People Are Worn Out" in Minneapolis
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- The mood in Minneapolis has become “somber” over the last month, says anti-ICE demonstrator Julie Prokes.
“People are worn out—they’re just sick of it, and they want it all to stop.”
@AustynJeffs reports for The FP.
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- NYC's Climate Laws Could Lead to Dangerous Blackouts
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- When a major snowstorm hits New York City, reliable energy—and heat—can be the difference between life and death.
Yet a 2019 climate bill mandating the electrification of 57,000 buildings could overwhelm the grid, spark blackouts, and put lives at serious risk.
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- How Academia Ruined Literature for Students
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- Life After Devastating Loss.
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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- How #MeToo Destroyed the Author of ‘13 Reasons Why’
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Eight years later, the #MeToo frenzy has taken nearly everything from "13 Reasons Why" author Jay Asher—even though he has never been formally accused, in any forum, of harassing or harming a woman, nor investigated, let alone found guilty, of such an offense.
- Title
- Dante: The Most Famous, Least Read Poet
- Runtime
- 46:50
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Dante Alighieri is one of the most consequential poets in human history, and his Divine Comedy is essential to understanding Western civilization itself. And yet, though most of us have heard of Inferno, Dante remains one of the least read of all the greats. His masterpiece unfolds in three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—charting a journey from despair to redemption.
For literature professor Joseph Luzzi, this journey was not abstract. When his wife was tragically killed in a car accident while eight months pregnant, leaving him widowed and a father on the same day, the epic poem helped him overcome his grief and build a new life. In this episode, Shilo and Joseph sit down to discuss Dante’s genius.
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- Niall Ferguson LIVE From Davos: Greenland, Trump vs. Europe & More
- Runtime
- 32:54
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- As Donald Trump clashes spectacularly with European leaders at the World Economic Forum, are we witnessing the collapse of the old-world order—and the rise of something new?
Niall Ferguson is on the ground in Davos. He joins Rafaela Siewert to discuss the latest.
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- Popularity Won’t Make You Happy
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Popularity won’t make you happy.
Arthur Brooks challenges the idea that if you’re beloved by millions, you’re doing something right.
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- When Wildfire Victims Pay
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Imagine your house burned down in a California wildfire. The power company allegedly responsible for starting that fire could possibly make you pay. They’ve done it before.
- Title
- The Iranian Regime Is Killing Protesters—She Made Sure the World Saw
- Runtime
- 7:52
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- For the past 23 days, thousands of Iranian protesters have flooded the streets in the largest anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic’s history. In response, the fundamentalist regime has unleashed a violent crackdown, reportedly killing more than 16,000 protesters.
The exact number of people killed and injured remains unknown, because Iran has made a great effort to keep its repressive response largely out of sight. Internet and phone service have been cut off by the government since January 8.
However, the outside world has been able to access images and videos showing the atrocities and their scale, through Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink. For years, anticipating the possibility of a digital blackout, Iranian activists have worked to smuggle in Starlink terminals that could bypass a government internet shutdown.
To understand how Starlink gets into Iran, and what its presence means at this critical moment, we spoke...
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- Finance bros are back?
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Finance bros are back?
Get Suzy's full column, Second Thought, at TheFP.com.
- Title
- Why Wars Today Are So Dangerous
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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