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Honestly with Bari Weiss
The most interesting conversations in American life happen in private. This show brings them out of the closet. Stories no one else is telling and conversations with the most fascinating people in the country, every week from The Free Press, hosted by former New York Times and Wall Street Journal jo...
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The Hostage Release and the Future of Gaza
At 3:22 a.m. ET on October 7, 2023, Bari texted her producer: “Candace, there’s war in Israel.” At that moment, Hamas men still roamed southern Israel...
María Corina Machado’s Fight to Free Venezuela
Congratulations are not usually in order for someone who has been forced into hiding, someone whose children are scattered across continents for their...
Niall Ferguson on October 7 and Our Changed World
This week commemorates the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023. That morning, Hamas invaded Israel. They slaughtered some 1,200 people and took an...
He Spent 491 Days as a Hamas Hostage. This Is How He Survived.
Two years ago today, five terrorists broke into Eli Sharabi’s safe room on Kibbutz Be’eri. He had been sheltered there for hours with his wife, Lianne...
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How One Man Overcame His Autism
Leland Vittert is one of America’s most recognizable television correspondents. You’ll know his face from years of frontline reporting in places like...
Inside the Mossad
If you’re anything like us, you’re a sucker for a good spy show: Homeland, Tehran, Fauda, The Bureau. We’re fascinated by the life of spies—the secret...
Woody Allen on Life and Death
You know the name Woody Allen. Everyone does. He’s made some of the most acclaimed films ever made: Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Mis...
Charlie Kirk’s Murder and the Rise of Political Violence
Yesterday, in broad daylight, in front of a crowd of 3,000 people at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk was shot dead. Kirk was not just a husband,...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett
When Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the Supreme Court, she was in some ways an unlikely choice. She was living in South Bend, Indiana, not New Yor...
Conversations with Coleman: Three Hostages Families Disagree on How to Get Their Loved Ones Home
Everyone wants the war in Gaza to end. The reason the war is not over is because about 50 people are still being held hostage by Hamas.
T...
Breaking History: The Invention That Changed Everything
Ever travel to Europe in the summer and suddenly feel very “ra ra ra” about America?
It’s not because of American culture, or food, or ar...
The Radical Right Is Coming for Our Sons
You might have heard of the new term: “woke right.” It’s the idea that the illiberalism that has swallowed the progressive left—what we often refer to...
Why Amanda Knox Forgave the Man Who Sent Her to Prison
On November 1, 2007, a man named Rudy Guede broke into a random home in Perugia, Italy, then raped and killed Meredith Kercher—a 21-year-old exchange...
Why Unions Went for Trump
The question of who represents the working class is probably the hottest debate in American politics. Is it Republicans? Democrats? Or socialists like...
Jeffrey Epstein and Conspiracy America
Here’s one fun question to ask at a dinner party: What is your favorite conspiracy theory?
There’s the idea that the CIA killed John F. K...
Could Rahm Emanuel Be Our Next President?
Rahm Emanuel is giving every indication that he’s running for president in 2028—including by coming on Honestly yesterday.
Emanuel, now 6...
Giga-Yachts, Flo Rida, and Bunkers. . . What Could Go Wrong?
Depending on who you ask, some would call the ultrarich “shameless”; others might say “aspirational.” For example: Mukesh Ambani, the Indian centibill...
Why Young People Love Socialism
Just two weeks ago, New Yorkers voted en masse for a self-proclaimed socialist—someone who once called for “seizing the means of production.”
Is Anyone a Genius?
Love him or hate him, many consider Elon Musk to be a modern-day genius. He co-founded PayPal, which transformed how people purchase things. He became...
The Words That Made America
America is turning 250. And we’re throwing a yearlong celebration of the greatest country on Earth. The greatest? Yes. The greatest.
We r...
Is Iran’s Nuclear Program Damaged or Destroyed?
When we last recorded Saturday night, the U.S. had just announced its strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The U.S. had entered the war. The restraine...
The U.S. Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Program
On Saturday night at 7:50 pm ET, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. had entered the war against Iran when he posted: “We have completed ou...
Niall Ferguson and Dexter Filkins: Who Will Win the Israel-Iran War?
It’s the fourth day in the war between Iran and Israel.
Many questions hang in the air. Chief among them: Will Israel be able to fulfill...
Iran Strikes Israel, Oil Fields Ablaze, and Will the U.S. Enter the War?
As we taped this episode of Honestly, it was 3 a.m. in Israel. Sirens wailed across the country as Iranian missiles rained down on Israeli towns.
Naftali Bennett and Michael Oren: Israel and Iran at War
In the early hours of Friday morning, Israel pulled off a historic strike on Iran. As I record these lines, Iran is reporting a “massive explosion” in...
Amb. Mike Huckabee on Gaza Aid, Iran, and MAGA’s Foreign Policy War
There are people who have résumés we might call “diverse” or “wide-ranging.” And then there are people like Mike Huckabee who, at age 69, has seemingl...
How Qatar Bought America
In the past few weeks, Qatar has been all over the news with flashy headlines of a $400 million luxury jet that the country gifted to President Donald...
The Biden Cover-Up and the Failure of the Press Corps
In 2023 and 2024, there were many things that were unsayable. Perhaps the most unsayable—at least in legacy media circles—was that the President of th...
How to Examine Your Marriage and Your Life
A lot of people fall in love outside of their marriages. Some have affairs. Some leave their wives or husbands. But not a lot of people are Agnes Call...
Welcome to the Global Intifada
Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were staffers at the Israeli Embassy. They had just planned a trip for Sarah to meet Yaron’s parents. He...
Debate: Will the Truth Survive Artificial Intelligence?
The late biologist E.O. Wilson said that “the real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-...
Andrew Cuomo on His Past and New York’s Future
When you think about great political comebacks, maybe you think of Donald Trump, or Richard Nixon, or “comeback kid” Bill Clinton.
...
How China Captured Apple
The majority of people listening to this episode are hearing it on an iPhone. As most of us can attest, the iPhone is so central to our lives that if...
Meet Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General
There’s an endearing saying that the U.S. surgeon general’s primary role is to be the nation’s family doctor. They represent America’s medical communi...
The Man Who Helped Michael Jordan Win
I want to tell you the story of a kid, born in 1937 into segregated Washington, D.C. He’s 9 when his father dies and 13 when his mother has a mental b...
Dana Perino on Trump’s White House, Fox News, and … Love
Sometimes we have a guest who needs no introduction. You know Dana Perino. She took on the job of White House press secretary when President George W....
Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan, Hamas, and Moral Collapse in the West
President Donald Trump has been in office for 100 days. Israel has been at war with Hamas in Gaza for 570, and Russia and Ukraine have been at war for...
100 Days of Donald Trump
Today marks President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. What to make of this dizzying first hundred days?
As Bret Stephen...
Marco Rubio on Iran, Deportations and the State Dept. Shake-Up
Yesterday, The Free Press had a major scoop: The State Department is launching the biggest shake-up in decades in an effort spearheaded by Secretary o...