The Making of America’s Most Famous Cheerleaders
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving, Honestly listeners! If you’re anything like the rest of America, you’ll be s...
How to Save America with Peggy Noonan
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Noonan does what we try to do every day at The Free Press: tell the truth, make sense of thing...
Where Do Democrats Go from Here?
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the election, we heard one warning, repeated ad infinitum: A Donald Trump victory would p...
Where Will Trump 2.0 Take the GOP?
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s gains among working-class voters of all races—according to exit polls, he won the majori...
Peter Thiel on Trump, Elon, and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday night, president-elect Donald Trump announced that the richest man in the world, Elon Mus...
Resistance or Opposition: Which Route Should the Democrats Take?
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Even your most optimistic Mar-a-Lago member didn’t see Donald Trump winning the popular vote and t...
Why Trump Won
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. . . again. It was a historic politi...
A Message from Bari on Election Day
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our newsroom reflects our readers: We aren’t voting in unison. Today, Bari Weiss explains how The ...
Trump and the Art of the Bullshitter
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bullshit is an American tradition. Think the theatrics of P.T. Barnum, miracle products sold ad naus...
Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special!
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Need a break from political programming? Well, today we have a special treat: It’s The Free Press’...
Trump or Kamala? Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris Debate.
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are no perfect candidates. But what do you do when both candidates are not just imperfect but ...
Should the U.S. Still Police the World? A Live Debate.
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that we’re standing at the precipice of what could ...
The Parasitic Ideas Threatening the West
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gad Saad was born in Beirut in 1964 into one of the last Jewish families to remain in Lebanon. But t...
How Hezbollah Is Destroying Lebanon
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the last year, we’ve witnessed a disturbing trend among some on the fringe left, who cheer thos...
Brianna Wu Says She Didn't Change. The Progressive Movement Did.
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It would have been unthinkable for Brianna Wu to have appeared on Honestly a decade ago (if the show...
The Democrats Voting for Trump
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, we had Sarah Longwell and David French, two prominent conservatives, on Honestly to...
The Hundred Year Holy War
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the horrid tale of what happened in Israel on October 7, 2023. Waves of gunmen attacked ...
“There Is No Peace Here”: Reporting on War with Trey Yingst
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve released a few episodes on Honestly for the anniversary of October 7. Today, we’re bringin...
A Year of Revelations
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it. Today on Honestly, ...
Emily Oster Talks About Our New Parenting Podcast
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Emily Oster was a kid in the 1980s in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on a block with a lot...
Douglas Murray: A Time of War
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we planned the conversation you’re going to hear today—a live conversation with Douglas Mur...
Megyn Kelly on Life After Mainstream Media
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Megyn Kelly cut her teeth in the mainstream media and became one of the most influential voices in t...
How Republics Unravel: From Rome to . . . America?
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, a man armed with an assault rifle was apprehended on a southern Florida golf course. He w...
Why Senator Rand Paul Hasn’t Endorsed Trump
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a listener of this show, then you’ve probably heard of the horseshoe theory. It’s ba...
Hezbollah's Pagers and Walkie-Talkies Explode. Now What?
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, hundreds of encrypted pagers in Lebanon and Syria began exploding at the same time. Leba...
Is The American Dream Alive and Well? A Live Debate.
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The American dream is the most important of our national myths. It’s the idea that, with hard work...
Cat-Eating, Rally Sizes, and Post-Birth Abortion: An American Debate
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last night was the much-anticipated presidential debate between incumbent vice president Kamala Harr...
World War II and the Rise of Anti-History
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tucker Carlson is perhaps the country’s most influential conservative commentator; his eponymous p...
When Students Become Terrorists
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, at colleges across America, students etched themselves into history, or infamy, with the ...
The Republicans Voting for Kamala
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, at the much-anticipated Democratic National Convention, we witnessed the coronation...
Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few weeks, there’s been an increasing number of threats to freedom of speech around th...
How Whole Foods Revolutionized American Eating Habits
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, is one of the most consequential American entrepreneu...
Debate: How Do We Fix American Education?
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year again–reliably bumming out students and parents alike… it ’s back to ...
From the DNC: Meet the Kamala Democrats
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1972 presidential election, Democratic candidate George McGovern was soundly defeated by Rich...
Nate Silver on the Art of Risking Everything
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most humans are cautious by nature. We naturally like to do what’s comfortable and safe. But comfo...
The Palestinian ‘Traitor’ Risking Everything to Speak Out
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few months ago, we learned about a young man whose name we’re withholding, which is something we...
Dear Caitlin Flanagan and Suzy Weiss: A Free Press Advice Special!
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Never before have people felt more comfortable weighing in on other people’s lives. What diet to ...
A Tim Walz Face-Off: Radical? Moderate? We Debate!
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, very few people outside of the Beltway and niche media circles had ever heard the n...
Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to t...
What to Do When the Market Drops? Call Larry Summers.
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, the markets had one of its worst trading days since the 2008 financial crisis. Stocks tum...
Can You Drink Your Way to Sobriety?
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we have a special story from two friends and former Free Pressers, Andy Mills and Matt Boll. ...
A Middle East on the Brink
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday afternoon, a Hezbollah rocket fired from southern Lebanon struck a soccer field in the v...
Is Kamala Harris 'Brat'? Also: What's Brat?
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the media-verse right now is focused on a handful of serious and important questions: Kamala...
Has Criminal Justice Reform Made Our Cities Unsafe? A Live Debate.
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States locks up nearly two million people, the highest number of prisoners for any countr...
The Free Press Live: Biden Drops Out
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democ...
Disenchanted with Democrats: The Black Voters Going for Trump
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the past few decades, it’s been conventional wisdom in D.C. that “demographics are destiny.”...
The Free Press LIVE from the RNC: Biden’s Interview, Trump, J.D. Vance, and More!
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A lot happened in American politics last night: the Biden interview, the Vance unveiling, Trump’s ...
The Roots of the Assassination Attempt
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As you now well know, at 6:11 p.m. on Saturday evening, shots rang out at a Trump rally in Butler, P...
Salena Zito Was Four Feet Away When She Heard the Bullets
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday, Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A few minutes into the rally, a...
Are We Living in ‘Late Soviet America’? Niall Ferguson and Jonah Goldberg Debate.
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, fresh from being knighted by King Charles, historian Sir Niall Ferguson officially ...
Bari and Nellie Are Having Another Baby—and They Have Questions!
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As some of you know, Nellie and Bari are having another baby—any moment now—maybe even by the ti...
When a President Drops Out: What Biden Can Learn from 1968
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On our nation’s 248th birthday, Joe Biden faces the wrath of a thousand pundits. The whole world w...
Will President Biden Drop Out?
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The past few days have been perhaps the most dramatic political spectacle since November 8, 2016. Ev...
Hello, and Welcome to My TED Talk
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January, I was announced as a 2024 TED speaker in Vancouver. Predictably, a small group of very l...
About Last Night. . .
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was no raucous audience cheering and jeering last night in Atlanta, but the first presidential...
The Story of Matthew Shepard’s Murder Changed America. But It Wasn't True.
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1997, Ellen was on the cover of Time magazine declaring, “Yep, I’m Gay.” Then a few w...
Can Israel Actually Win This War?
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Hamas attacked Israel eight months ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s war g...
Was Legalizing Weed a Mistake? A Debate.
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a little over a decade since cannabis was first legalized recreationally in the United S...
Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Pinker is a world-renowned cognitive psychologist, and is widely regarded as one of the most ...
“I Was Wrong About Anti Semitism”: Sheryl Sandberg on Waking Up
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last Saturday, stunning news broke out of Israel: four hostages had been rescued by the Israel Defen...
The Former Russian Official Calling for a Coup Against Putin
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it was the largest military attack on a European count...
BONUS: Is the Trump Verdict a Witch Trial? Or Justice?
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On May 30, former president Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business...
Argentina's President Javier Milei Loves Being the Skunk at the Garden Party
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of the twentieth century, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. T...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Subversion of the West
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of several books—including the 2006 autobiography Infidel—as well ...
How ‘Vice’ Went from a $6 Billion Media Empire to Bankruptcy
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fifteen years ago, Vice was the envy of the media industry. While other outlets were shrinking, the ...
Jerry Seinfeld on the Rules of Comedy—and Life
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first episode of Seinfeld aired in 1989. Thirty-five years later, the show remains at the apex o...
Is Israel's War Just? Eli Lake and Michael Moynihan v Briahna Joy Gray and Jake Klein
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, there was an awesome event in Brooklyn in partnership with UnHerd called Dissident ...
Nellie Bowles Knows Why So Many Progressives Lost Their Minds—She Almost Did, Too
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press. In fact, Nellie w...
Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain?
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new $6 billion-dollar industry. Its global market size is expected to increase to $100 b...
‘Small Talk’ with David Sedaris
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The news lately has not exactly been a walk in the park. Iran launched hundreds of rockets at Israel...
Should the U.S. Shut Its Borders? A Live Debate.
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is home to more immigrants than any other country in the world. It is a truism tha...
Is Banning TikTok a Mistake? A Debate.
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden just signed into law a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent ByteDan...
Rising Antisemitism and Choosing Freedom
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators told Jewish students to “go back to Polan...
Nicole Avant on Tragedy, Forgiveness, and Thinking Free
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It was November 30, 2021, when Nicole Avant got a call in the middle of the night from her husband. ...
Iran Attacked Israel. What Comes Next?
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the late hours of Saturday night 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles barre...
NPR Editor Speaks Out: How National Public Radio Lost Americans' Trust
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Uri Berliner is a senior business editor at NPR. In his 25 years with NPR, his work has been recogni...
How the Working Class Became America’s Second Class
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Election Night 2016, many of us thought we knew who would be the next president of the United Sta...
The Story of Someone Who Changed His Mind
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, ...
Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here's How to Fix It.
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been explaining the human condition to us better than anyone ...
The Free Press in Israel Part 3: The Gathering Storm
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we close out the Israel series with a conversation with the journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, who ...
The Free Press in Israel Part 2: Shattered Illusions
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we went to Israel, we tried tirelessly to get into Gaza but Israel’s counteroffensive made it...
The Free Press in Israel Part 1: Running Toward Fire
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a country has to ask its citizens the unthinkable: What are you willing to die for...
Trailer: The Free Press in Israel
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago, a team of Free Press producers and reporters arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel A...
Why the Kids Aren't Alright
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
American kids are the freest, most privileged kids in all of history. They are also the saddest, mos...
Two Years Later: Should America Continue to Aid Ukraine? A Debate.
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The costs of this war have been unbelie...
Alexei Navalny Died for the Truth. Tucker Carlson Fell for the Lie.
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined a long line of ordinary and noble people ...
Special Episode! Suzy Weiss on Dating While Problematic
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re thrilled to bring you not Honestly with Bari Weiss, but maybe something even better: ...
Economist Roland Fryer on Adversity, Race, and Refusing to Conform
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A little over two years ago, in the pages of The Free Press, Pano Kanelos announced that he was star...
Andrew Sullivan on What He Got Wrong About Trump
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may ...
The Real Team America
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s increasing concern that as scary as this period feels—between Russia’s two-year war in...
The Right Way to Fight Illiberalism: Christopher Rufo and Yascha Mounk Debate
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Yascha Mounk and Christopher Rufo debate the origins of DEI and the right way to fight the il...
Why We Still Need to Talk About America's Covid Failures
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been four years since the first American death from the coronavirus. Four years since we were...
The Silence of the Feminists
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred days ago, the world changed. October 7 has proven to be many things: the opening salvo i...
Can Dean Phillips Pull Off the Impossible: Defeat Joe Biden?
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're less than two weeks out from the first Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, and the mood among...
What to Expect in 2024: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Peter Attia, John McWhorter and More
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last year was certainly eventful. It brought spy balloons, Donald Trump’s indictments, the coronat...
Wisdom from a Teen and a Grandfather—60 Years Apart
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last six months, we’ve run two essay contests in The Free Press. The first was for high ...
The Case of Kate Cox—and the Trouble with the Abortion Debate
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last month, America has been witnessing one of the biggest abortion battles in the country ...
Miracle in Hell: The Baby Twins Who Survived a Massacre
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On October 7, Hamas terrorists stormed into the home of Hadar and Itay Berdichevsky in Kibbutz Kfar ...
A Congressional Hearing, A Resignation, and Why DEI Must End For Good
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How did the congressional hearing on antisemitism last week go so awry? Was the resignation of Univ...
Why Half of American Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the words that’s become utterly void of meaning in the last few years because of its overus...