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Spencer, Saca La Bassura: Will LAs Latinos Back Pratt?
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (295+ words) The Free Press In October 2020, Adrian Alvarez, an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, was so panicked that Joe Biden would not win the election and "dethrone" Donald Trump, he wound up in a hospital for 10 days. "I woke up outside my…...
What the Spelling Bee Taught Me About Excellence
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (250+ words) The Free Press Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was a finalist in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee. My experience came rushing back on Thursday night while watching the 2026 finals unfold. This year's competition, which featured nine finalists,…...
Democrats Can't Decide Whether the Problem Is Fraud or the People Exposing It
4+ day, 27+ min ago (161+ words) A partisan fight over fraud has become a showcase in asymmetric warfare. Republicans are working aggressively to expose misspent federal aid and benefits. By contrast, many Democrats aren't sure whether to admit that there's a problem at all. Republicans' crusade…...
Searching for God in Silicon Valley. Plus. ..
1+ week, 1+ day ago (377+ words) Welcome back to The Weekend Press! Today, Joe Nocera reviews the new Steve Jobs biography, 40 years after profiling him. Jill Kargman, who skewers the Upper East Side for a living, says: "I don't need Bellinis to be uncensored." Kat Rosenfield…...
Two Drinks with. .. the "Odd Mom Out
1+ week, 2+ day ago (233+ words) I'm sure I have bad bones. I'm sure I have, like, wafer bird bones. But I don't like protein and I don't lift weights," Jill Kargman tells me. My doctor literally called me skinny fat, and said if you trace…...
Nithya Raman Was Supposed to Be LA's Mamdani. Then Spencer Pratt Showed Up.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (280+ words) The Free Press Last week, progressive Los Angeles city councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running to be the city's next mayor, sat down for a one-hour interview with leftist streamer-slash-Chinese Communist Party'apologist Hasan Piker. Piker has become something of a…...
Going for the Gold'on Drugs. Plus
1+ week, 2+ day ago (200+ words) But first: Is the "doping olympics" the future of sports? This weekend in Las Vegas, athletes will gather for the inaugural Enhanced Games. It's like the Olympics, except performance-enhancing drugs aren't banned'they're encouraged. Competitors are juiced with testosterone, anabolic steroids,…...
Rod Dreher: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed
1+ week, 3+ day ago (207+ words) What kind of hatred motivated the teenage San Diego mosque shooters, who killed three men and died in a murder-suicide before capture? Well, take your pick. According to the 75-page unfinished manifesto left behind by Caleb Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark,…...
Was This Prosecutor Pulled from a Case Because He's Jewish? Plus. ..
1+ week, 6+ day ago (478+ words) It's Monday, May 18. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press'and our take on the world at large. Today: the architect of a genocide who died without facing justice. How teachers' unions became…...
How Teachers" Unions Became Political Big Spenders
1+ week, 6+ day ago (155+ words) Are our country's teachers' unions actually just political fundraising machines? A new report out today accuses both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) of spending tens of millions of dollars on electing Democratic political…...