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One month after being barred from Gillette Stadium, the rapper drew 13,000 people in Dublin. I joined the crowd and found fans who justified terrorism and dismissed antisemitism, writes Josh Kaplan.

The truth comes out in a reelection campaign; a big stink about an F-bomb; the Supreme Court goes in circles; and more.

A historian from Mosul, Iraq, visits Treblinka, Auschwitz, and Bełżec—and returns with a demand for the Arab world.

My students at UATX know they can disagree passionately with their classmates—a more meaningful definition of ‘safe space’ than what I encountered teaching in the Ivy League.

One intellectual advantage of AI models is that they can free up our time from tedious and thankless tasks—giving us the option of devoting more of our time to creative pursuits.

In the latest This Week in Canada newsletter, British Columbia votes for stability, sanity, and common sense; a message for Pierre Poilievre; ‘elbows up’ in the Canada-U.S. trade war might work after all; and more, writes Rupa Subramanya.

Sydney Sweeney might just become a Jew. It would be our biggest pickup since Ruth, writes Suzy Weiss.

How David Sacks won over Trump on AI. The midterm ‘stop the steal’ freakout. What the Netflix prison experiment says about us. And more.

Would a new prime minister change Israel’s approach to its enemies? Haviv Rettig Gur joins Aaron MacLean to explain where Israelis agree on security—and why they remain divided over who should lead.

The president promised ‘peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela.’ Yet opposition leader Machado remains in exile, no elections are set, and corporations are hesitant to invest.

Nidal Hasan deserves to die for his massacre of 14 people. Turning his execution into online content would mock his victims and hand the death penalty’s critics their best argument.

African immigrants have done well in the U.S. Their neighborhoods are relatively safe. Their incomes are high. They are well educated and speak English. What’s not to like?

San Francisco University High School is a progressive feeder to the Ivy League, but tremors of antisemitism over the past three years have caused Jewish enrollment to fall to a trickle, writes Ashley Rindsberg.

Until he was detained by ICE, the anti-Israel activist was nothing more than a scoundrel. His new memoir confirms his status as a secular saint for progressives.

Netanyahu has spent three years fighting a war that has redrawn the Middle East. His opponents promise change, but Israel has much to lose by abandoning the strategy that brought it this far, writes Gadi Taub.

The AI debate has produced no clear good guys, only rival visions of who should control our fate. The power to decide rests with a handful of billionaires, writes Christopher Caldwell.

Young Europeans are taking to the streets in Paris, Madrid, and Brussels. They say they want more investment in schools and housing. They should be protesting a system rigged for their grandparents.

Progressives are so confident in a midterm blowout that they think Trump cheating is the only way they can lose. They’re setting up their base for rage and disappointment, writes Mark Halperin.

In the glory days of magazines, journalists flew business class and contributors were sent flowers just for meeting a deadline. It was absurd.

Gadi Eisenkot is a former IDF leader who rarely wears a suit, avoids political grandstanding, and says little about himself. And he’s leading in polls against Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, writes Neria Kraus.

Chaos on the streets of French cities has brought back the seductive notion that violence can set you free. It is a myth—and a recipe for civil war, writes Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Watch now (59 mins) | The black family is in crisis. Author Delano Squires is trying to tell us why.

Netflix’s new Stanford Prison Experiment reality show reveals why Americans are so easily recruited into a culture war that makes everyone miserable, writes Arthur Brooks.

Decades after his death, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen still commands an audience. Madeleine Long reports from his beatification in St. Louis.

In today's Front Page: A freethinker's guide to the midterms. Can AI already hack your bank account? Jed Rubenfeld on Stop the Steal, Alaska edition. Is this disease too rare for American medicine to treat? And much more.

For many on the right, the past decade has proven that liberalism is not strong enough to fight off illiberal challengers. They say it’s time to strike back—and use the power of the state.

It will make you terribly unhappy, writes Arthur Brooks.

The Michigan Democrat refuses to clarify his most controversial positions with less than a month until Election Day, writes Audrey Fahlberg.

‘I don’t think there will be a blue wave at all,’ says James Blair, the MAGA operative spearheading a late comeback effort.

At the first National Conservatism conference held in Israel last week, rising voices of the MAGA right delivered a blunt message: Israel and Jews are losing everyone on the right under 40, writes Rod Dreher.

Both parties ask their supporters to accept vile candidates every two years. They say the stakes are too high to refuse, but nothing will improve unless more of us do, writes Erick Erickson.

In the Michigan senate race, muddleheaded party leaders cannot see past the next election, writes Peter Savodnik. Will the voters?

Systems that guard our email and bank accounts are vulnerable to attacks, but building on the best defenses will buy time and prevent a crisis, writes Tyler Cowen.

Democrats say a Trump lawsuit is meant to nullify the vote in Alaska. That suit won’t work—but a suspicious candidate may be the real spoiler, writes Jed Rubenfeld.

Thirty million Americans live with rare diseases that fall through the cracks of U.S. medicine. My mother is one of them, writes Christina Sher. To stay alive, she goes to Europe.

Caring for an aging parent can be exhausting, expensive, and unfairly distributed among siblings. It can also become one of life’s deepest sources of meaning, writes Arthur Brooks.

The current setup is a very good deal for American arms suppliers and manufacturers. But is it good for the Jewish state?

My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder: You’re not shy, you’re autistic; you’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD, writes Freya India.

The latest season of ‘Fauda’ captures a question at the center of Hamas’s October 7 strategy: Would Israel’s Arab citizens join the revolt? The answer was always going to be no.

America builds 0.1 percent of the world’s ships. China builds 53 percent. Shipbuilding executive Alex Wong says he knows how to fill the gap.

The confidence coach joins the show to break down how our relationships fell apart—and how to mend them.

The decision to have Meryl Streep voice Aslan in the new Narnia film is neither a stroke of brilliance nor a microaggression against conservatives. It’s much more profound and dangerous.

My college education gave me lifelong friends and a broad education. What it didn’t give me was enough connection to the world beyond campus. Andreessen Horowitz is building a school that does, writes Erik Torenberg.

Phillip Pacardi edits a magazine famous for naked women, is publishing a book called 'Is Jesus Kinda Hot?,’ and enjoyed Vesper Martinis in Midtown with River Page.

Did these grad students study their way into believing in God, or was the intervention more divine than that?

A decade after she became the face of race fakery, she has a certification from the Sexology Institute, a successful OnlyFans page, and a new name that reflects her ‘high-frequency Nubian spirit,' writes River Page.

In today's Weekend Press: The death of writing. Suzy Weiss on the $50 million bra. How to make the perfect martini. The optimism of Norm Macdonald. And more!

In ’The Social Reckoning,’ the characters rage about the ‘velocity, the size of distribution, and the anonymity’ of the algorithm, writes Suzy Weiss. You can imagine what captivating cinema that is.

Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, understands that sometimes the most powerful thing a poet can say is nothing at all, writes Spencer Klavan.

My father, Elie Wiesel, received the Nobel Peace Prize for ensuring the Holocaust wouldn’t be forgotten. By honoring Navi Pillay, who accused Israel of genocide, the committee has betrayed his legacy.