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2026-09-10 · The Free Press · Technology

Yes, AI Might Really Kill Us All. Plus. . .

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2026-09-05 · The Free Press · Entertainment

My Friend Gloria Steinem. Plus. . .

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2026-08-31 · The Free Press · Technology

‘Full-Blown AI Takeover Within Months.’ Plus. . .

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2026-08-26 · The Free Press · Entertainment

Dolly Parton, Pure Product of America. Plus. . .

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2026-09-08 · The Free Press · Politics

Spencer Cox: The Day Charlie Kirk Died. Plus. . .

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2026-09-03 · The Free Press · Education

Should Kids Use AI? A Debate. Plus. . .

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2026-08-24 · The Free Press

🔮 Pakistan’s army chief is set to visit Tehran today for talks with Iranian leaders on ending the war with the U.S. as the Trump administration prepares to unveil what officials have called “the toughest sanctions in history” against Iran. assertive

2026-08-25 · The Free Press

🔮 Why Trump would make a great mayor of D.C. Aaron MacLean on how the U.S. military can build the drones it needs—without China’s help. assertive

2026-08-26 · The Free Press

🔮 How did the daughter of an illiterate sharecropper become one of the world’s foremost lyricists, the woman who wrote more than 3,000 songs, including both “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the space of a single day? assertive

2026-08-27 · The Free Press

🔮 That’s the big question we posed in the latest edition of The Honesty Project, our partnership with Populace, an opinion-research think tank that designs surveys to capture respondents’ “private” opinions—the views they may consider too sensitive to share publicly. assertive

2026-08-31 · The Free Press

🔮 “This might be the last warning we get.” “We are so far past the sci-fi point.” “Full-blown AI takeover within months.” assertive

2026-08-31 · The Free Press

🔮 Earlier this week, I couldn’t help but notice a cover story in New York magazine. assertive

2026-09-03 · The Free Press

🔮 On Wednesday, New York City public schools—the largest district in the country—announced that it will ban the use of AI for elementary and middle school students. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Free Press

🔮 When the story of the past decade in American public life is written, it will, for better or worse, center on one man. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Free Press

🔮 This week, former congressman George Santos was given a lifetime ban from the prediction market Kalshi, after allegedly making $17,000 betting on whether he would go to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. assertive

2026-09-08 · The Free Press

🔮 In an interview with our Peter Savodnik days after the shooting, Cox spoke about “which direction he thought Americans, and America, would choose” in the aftermath of the murder. assertive

2026-09-09 · The Free Press

🔮 It’s part of an experiment being conducted in a number of places to see if a guaranteed income, for six months or a year, will help keep those newly released from prison from winding up back inside. assertive

2026-09-10 · The Free Press

🔮 Maya Sulkin talks 9/11, Mamdani, and more with former New York governor George Pataki. assertive

2026-09-12 · The Free Press

🔮 She’s also working on making a more robust kind of cow, which will be good for ranchers’ bottom lines. assertive

2026-09-12 · The Free Press

🔮 We gathered 10 first-person testimonies from the day the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon was hit, including a photojournalist who ran toward the World Trade Center when almost everyone else was running away, and got the shot that changed her life; a woman who was a toddler in the Pentagon day care when the plane hit and is now a U.S. Air Force captain; a firefighter who came from Maryland to help with the search and rescue; and memories from The Free Press’s Joe Nocera and Will Rahn, who were in New York City that day. assertive

2026-09-14 · The Free Press

🔮 What it shows, in graphic form, is the bewilderingly wide range of ways AI could transform our lives: It could lead to never-before-seen prosperity (that’s the red line), it could give us something like the normal rate of economic growth (the orange and green lines), or it could end the human race (the purple line). The chart stayed with me because it tells, in stark terms, not just an economic story, but the story of our time: the creation, by us, of something smarter than us, and the profound and unpredictable ways in which that could change what it means to be human. assertive

2026-09-15 · The Free Press

🔮 Meanwhile, the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds briefly rose above 5 percent on Monday, its highest since the pandemic, with interest rates expected to rise in the coming days. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Free Press

🔮 But first: inside the unlikely coalition warning that AI may kill us all. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Free Press

🔮 Will these New York nuns ever get their money back? assertive

2026-09-19 · The Free Press

🔮 It is first and foremost an investigation of power—the mind-boggling kind that’s accrued to the men who, since the start of the millennium, have invented products that shape how we see everything; who face the “dictator’s dilemma,” whereby people stop telling them things they don’t want to hear, until they lose their grip on reality entirely; and who, if you believe this week’s headlines about artificial intelligence, could destroy us all. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Free Press

🔮 Arthur Brooks on why relying on AI writing will make you unhappy. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Free Press

🔮 Read my piece to understand why the series may do more than almost anything in recent years to shift public opinion on Israel. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Free Press

🔮 He would later describe himself as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.” assertive

2026-09-28 · The Free Press

🔮 Inside the 50,000-person ceremony for the man who could become America’s next saint. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Free Press

🔮 Why wasn’t anyone in their fraternity willing to say: Enough, and help Jane Doe back to her dorm? assertive

2026-10-05 · The Free Press

🔮 In 22 days, Israelis will vote in the first national elections since the worst attack in the country’s history. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Free Press

🔮 The lawsuit accusing seven former members of Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity of gang-raping a classmate, allegations they deny, will ultimately be decided in court. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Free Press

🔮 Before I could even finish my question, he cut in to insist he is “just not interested in this dog and pony show” about leaked audio that is “not relevant to people’s lives,” even though he spends so much of his time on the stump talking about foreign policy related to Israel, AIPAC, and the Iran war. assertive