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Spencer Pratt Is Running for LA Mayor. Could He Win?
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (277+ words) ‘My party is angry Angelenos,’ says the former reality TV star. Are there enough of them for him to topple Mayor Karen Bass? At last week’s mayoral debate in Los Angeles, there were three competing visions of the city on…...
The Mythmaking Around the Iran War
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (833+ words) The Free Press Last week, Michael Doran wrote for Tablet about what the Iran war’s critics have been getting wrong—in the immediate aftermath of the Islamabad peace talks collapsing and President Trump announcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports....
No, You Are Not Being Drafted
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (117+ words) The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules—and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot, writes Nicholas Clairmont. As news sites like Military Times first reported last week, the government is moving ahead…...
What Kind of Autocrat Loses an Election?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (402+ words) The Free Press Viktor Orbán has been defeated. That is good for Hungary, good for Ukraine, and good for anyone who believes the will of the people should mean something. It is also, if we are being honest, a problem…...
Trump’s Iran Blockade Is Functioning—But Will It Work?
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (751+ words) The Free Press Donald Trump’s blockade of Iran, announced after the breakdown of ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan last weekend, has begun, and early reports suggest it is working. But its strategic goal is to bring Iran to a more serious…...
The New ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is Making Gay Kids Trans
5+ mon, 8+ hour ago (312+ words) Adopting traits of the opposite sex is often a sign of same-sex attraction. But today, many children who do so are steered toward changing their sex, writes Jamie Kirchick. The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 last month that a 2019 Colorado law…...
Who Should Control AI’s Most Dangerous Secrets?
5+ mon, 9+ hour ago (139+ words) Anthropic’s latest model, Mythos, is stirring debate about whether AI must be placed under a Manhattan Project-style federal authority, writes Josh Code. When Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote that “we are building machines that can think and reason,” America was still trying…...
Israel Has an Extremism Problem
5+ mon, 16+ hour ago (576+ words) Besides the moral failure, Israel’s institutional failure to crack down on violent settlers is damaging its ability to fight for its survival, writes Haviv Rettig Gur. If you’ve been following the news out of the Middle East, you’ve likely noticed…...
The Ceasefire That Wasn’t
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (411+ words) The Free Press Well, there is a ceasefire. Or perhaps not. It includes Lebanon. Or it doesn’t. Iran’s 10-point plan is an acceptable working document for the United States. Or it isn’t the one U.S. negotiators saw. The Strait…...
Will Colleges Ever Give Up Racial Preferences?
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (540+ words) The Free Press Since the Supreme Court banned the use of racial preferences in college admissions in 2023, Harvard president Alan Garber has promised repeatedly that his school “will follow the law.” If so, why are they still hiding the data?...