A mom’s blood boils when her kid says his classmates were ‘watching bubbles float across the screen and were supposed to count them.’ Is it time to take drastic action? Our advice columnist weighs in. thefp.com/p/tough-love-shoul…
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"We have a saying in the middle east, if you want to work, you go to America, if you want to live on welfare, you go to Europe"
@KonstantinKisin on why Europe can't curb its addiction to mass migration.
Watch his full conversation with @coldxman on Youtube.
Harvard Medical School says obesity isn’t unhealthy. The Ohio locals who say drug rehab is destroying their city. And more. thefp.com/p/who-is-really-be…
What began as a high school protest movement spiraled into a violent uprising, organized by Islamists, antifascists, and radical environmentalists who wish to see the French Republic toppled, writes Nora Bussigny. thefp.com/p/france-high-scho…
The panelists claimed America lives under ‘body fascism’ and that fat-shaming, not fat, harms people’s health. None of the three main speakers at this event was a doctor or a scientist of any kind, writes Brad Polumbo. thefp.com/p/obesity-fat-libe…
Portsmouth, Ohio, used to be America’s pill mill capital. Now, it’s been taken over by addicts who are looking to get clean but end up falling into a system of chronic abuse, neglect, and fraud.
@FrannieBlock spent months talking to locals, politicians, and recovering addicts to get to the bottom of it.
Read her full report here: bit.ly/4i77pup
In the first six months of 2026, 660 settler attacks killed six Palestinians and wounded 140, according to Israel. These violent clashes bring shame on the Jewish state, writes @yardenas.
Read her full essay here: bit.ly/4ian4ci
There’s no guarantee that French culture and traditions will survive ceaseless attacks from discontents inside the country.
@DouglasKMurray dives into this in his recent column. Read it here: thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-f…
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I asked @GadSaad how his term “suicidal empathy” helps explain everything we’ve seen coming out of France and across Europe over the past week.
Listen:
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What happens when a town becomes 'the drug rehab capital of the world'?
A must-read @FrannieBlock story.
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NEW: My reporting on the 'rehab capital of America' in @TheFP
Recovery centers are intended to fill an essential need for a heavily drug-addicted community, still struggling decades after the height of the opioid crisis. But some wonder whether their invasion of Scioto County - a small, rural county with few jobs and little industry - is the next exploitation of Appalachia.
Author @GadSaad famously coined the term “suicidal empathy.” Could this help explain the unrest unfolding across France?
@IsabellaRedjai sat down with him to find out.
The former pill mill capital of America has become overrun by addicts seeking treatment. Locals say the emerging industry is rife with exploitation, abuse, and fraud, writes Frannie Block. thefp.com/p/drugs-rehabs-are…
A writer for “The Atlantic” recently tried to cast Zohran Mamdani as a moderate Democrat. But @Liel doesn’t buy it.
Read why here: bit.ly/4ian4ci
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The patriotic case for separatism, and why more Canadian conservatives are looking to Alberta as a refuge from a country they increasingly feel they no longer recognize. My latest. thefp.com/p/this-week-in-can…
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Read @SnoozyWeiss on David Sabatini's ordeal finally coming to an end.
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Tyler Cowen says Elizabeth Holmes should not be behind bars. Liel Leibovitz on whether Mayor Mamdani is a moderate in disguise. The alarming Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. And more. thefp.com/p/texas-ken-paxton…
Democrat James Talarico has led nearly every recent poll, and local Republicans worry their voters won’t turn out. The blame game has already begun, writes Audrey Fahlberg. thefp.com/p/texas-ken-paxton…
Centrist Democrats want to cast the mayor as a chastened progressive. But his record reveals a man who compromises when forced and pushes left when the power is his to wield, writes Liel Leibovitz. thefp.com/p/mamdani-the-mode…
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