I admit it — I have an addiction. To my phone. But who cares? I’m old. We worry about this happening to kids. But are kids actually being hurt? Experts are divided on that question. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The

I was hoping for an upbeat conversation. I was hoping that Mikhail Zygar, one of the few journalists who understands how Putin thinks, would come bouncing on to our live video chat and tell me that he was hopeful that, like

It’s Tuesday, August 19. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: A Texas town renames its high school after a Confederate general. A pair of

Andrea Widburg writes for the American Thinker about the regrettable decline of legacy media outlets. “In the Soviet Union, there is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.” Readers of a certain age recognize that old joke, which played

Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about a problem plaguing red-state governments. Left-wing bureaucracies are quietly undercutting the will of Republican voters in so-called “red states” across the country, according to a new report. Published this week by the State Leadership

Adam Kredo writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a dubious United Nations priority. The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon is largely funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, money it has used to pursue left-wing programs like “gender diversity” training and lessons

Editors at National Review Online lament a misguided Democratic legal attack. There are times when it is perfectly acceptable to judge a book by its cover, and, in the case of the Democratic Party’s relentless persecution of the Little Sisters of

Andrew Stuttaford writes for National Review Online about a former German leader’s lingering impact on European life. The reckless, arrogant and narcissistic decision by Angela Merkel, Germany’s second-worst chancellor, to throw open her country’s doors in 2015 was one of the