A Free Press roundtable on who won—and lost—the Republican ruckus. On Wednesday night, Fox News and the streaming platform Rumble hosted the first Republican presidential debate with the eight GOP hopefuls who made the cut: North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former vice president Mike Pence, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Missing from the stage was Donald Trump, who refused to...…A Free Press roundtable on who won—and lost—the Republican ruckus. On Wednesday night, Fox News and the streaming platform Rumble hosted the first Republican presidential debate with the eight GOP hopefuls who made the cut: North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, former governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former vice president Mike Pence, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Missing from the stage was Donald Trump, who refused to...WW…

This publication began with a question: do Americans still want real journalism? Nearly 450,000 of you are answering: yes. Get all of our stories delivered straight to your inbox. I want to tell you three stories. Three short stories from these last days of summer that explain better than any pitch deck why The Free Press exists—and why the work that we’re doing matters. The first is about Jamie Reed. Perhaps you’ll remember that name. Six months ago, we published an explosive story by Reed—an insider account about the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s...…This publication began with a question: do Americans still want real journalism? Nearly 450,000 of you are answering: yes. Get all of our stories delivered straight to your inbox. I want to tell you three stories. Three short stories from these last days of summer that explain better than any pitch deck why The Free Press exists—and why the work that we’re doing matters. The first is about Jamie Reed. Perhaps you’ll remember that name. Six months ago, we published an explosive story by Reed—an insider account about the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s...WW…

On the latest episode of Honestly, I spoke to the presidential candidate about why he’s polling at 20 percent among likely Democrats. A few days ago, Joe Rogan offered Dr. Peter Hotez $100,000 to appear on his show to debate RFK Jr. on the subject of vaccines and public health. Not 48 hours later, thanks to Twitter, the ante is now more than $2 million and counting.If this debate happens, it could rival the audience tuning in to the official presidential debates in the 2024 election cycle. Which tells us a tremendous amount about our current political moment.So does the fact that...…On the latest episode of Honestly, I spoke to the presidential candidate about why he’s polling at 20 percent among likely Democrats. A few days ago, Joe Rogan offered Dr. Peter Hotez $100,000 to appear on his show to debate RFK Jr. on the subject of vaccines and public health. Not 48 hours later, thanks to Twitter, the ante is now more than $2 million and counting.If this debate happens, it could rival the audience tuning in to the official presidential debates in the 2024 election cycle. Which tells us a tremendous amount about our current political moment.So does the fact that...WW…

SubscribeSign inShare this postYou Have to Read This Letterwww.commonsense.newsCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailApr 16, 2021Share this postYou Have to Read This Letterwww.commonsense.newsCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailGutmann chose to pull his daughter, who has been in the school since kindergarten, and sent this missive to all 600 or so families in the school earlier this week. Among the lines: If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep...…SubscribeSign inShare this postYou Have to Read This Letterwww.commonsense.newsCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailApr 16, 2021Share this postYou Have to Read This Letterwww.commonsense.newsCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailGutmann chose to pull his daughter, who has been in the school since kindergarten, and sent this missive to all 600 or so families in the school earlier this week. Among the lines: If Brearley’s administration was truly concerned about so-called “equity,” it would be discussing the cessation of admissions preferences for legacies, siblings, and those families with especially deep...WW…

SHARESHAREknow a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing. What you censor, of course, depends on where you sit. My liberal friends who live in red America confess to avoiding discussions of masks, , Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, the 2020 election and Donald Trump, to name just a few. When those who disagree with the surrounding majority speak their mind, they suffer the consequences. I think here of my friend, the...…SHARESHAREknow a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing. What you censor, of course, depends on where you sit. My liberal friends who live in red America confess to avoiding discussions of masks, , Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, the 2020 election and Donald Trump, to name just a few. When those who disagree with the surrounding majority speak their mind, they suffer the consequences. I think here of my friend, the...WW…

I know a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing. What you censor, of course, depends on where you sit.My liberal friends who live in red America confess to avoiding discussions of masks, , Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, the 2020 election and Donald Trump, to name just a few. When those who disagree with the surrounding majority speak their mind, they suffer the consequences. I think here of my friend, the conservative...…I know a lot of people who live in fear of saying what they really think. In red America and in blue America — and, perhaps more so, on the red internet and the blue internet — we are in the grip of an epidemic of self-silencing. What you censor, of course, depends on where you sit.My liberal friends who live in red America confess to avoiding discussions of masks, , Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, the 2020 election and Donald Trump, to name just a few. When those who disagree with the surrounding majority speak their mind, they suffer the consequences. I think here of my friend, the conservative...WW…

AdvertisementWhen I saw that the king of all podcasting, , had inked a deal with Spotify for his widely popular show I texted to congratulate him on getting crazy rich. How rich?“Weirdly richer,” he replied. “Like it doesn’t register. Seems fake.”, the deal could amount to more than $100 million, a number that Rogan doesn’t want to discuss. “It feels gross,” he told me Thursday night. “Especially right now, when people can’t work.”News of Tuesday’s deal, which gave Spotify exclusive rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” sent the company’s stock soaring: It $1.7 billion to its market cap in...…AdvertisementWhen I saw that the king of all podcasting, , had inked a deal with Spotify for his widely popular show I texted to congratulate him on getting crazy rich. How rich?“Weirdly richer,” he replied. “Like it doesn’t register. Seems fake.”, the deal could amount to more than $100 million, a number that Rogan doesn’t want to discuss. “It feels gross,” he told me Thursday night. “Especially right now, when people can’t work.”News of Tuesday’s deal, which gave Spotify exclusive rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” sent the company’s stock soaring: It $1.7 billion to its market cap in...WW…

Can you believe ...? Perhaps no question has been repeated more times in reaction to more events this year than that one. The most recent major outrage in the Jewish community, now several news cycles behind us, came on the Shabbat before Yom Kippur—the holiest day in the Jewish calendar—when many American Jews seemed dumbfounded by what was to me predictable news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, progressive superstar, had pulled out of an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister assassinated because of his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians. Rabin was, as Bill Clinton...…Can you believe ...? Perhaps no question has been repeated more times in reaction to more events this year than that one. The most recent major outrage in the Jewish community, now several news cycles behind us, came on the Shabbat before Yom Kippur—the holiest day in the Jewish calendar—when many American Jews seemed dumbfounded by what was to me predictable news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, progressive superstar, had pulled out of an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister assassinated because of his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians. Rabin was, as Bill Clinton...WW…