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The Jury Could Not Decide. The Insanity Defense Still Works.

A Massachusetts jury deadlocked on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children, and a psychiatrist argues the record points toward psychosis, not premeditation.
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World

He Ran the 9/11 Fund. Nothing Like It Has Been Built Since.

Kenneth Feinberg spent three years distributing compensation to victims of the September 11th attacks — a program he calls unique in American history, and one no administration has repeated.
By Elias Navarro · Sep 5
U.S.

Trump Built a Movement Around Himself. A Historian Asks What Outlives Him.

Victor Davis Hanson's new book on Trump's comeback poses the question conservatives cannot avoid: does MAGA survive once the man who founded it steps aside?
By Ruth Barrow · Sep 4
Culture

A KGB Prison Held a Library. Sharansky Found Socrates There.

In a memoir excerpt, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky recalls how Stalin's purges filled a KGB prison with confiscated classics — and how Plato helped him keep his mind free while the state controlled everything else.
By Miles Ashford · Sep 4
Culture

At 73, He Earned a PhD. The Lesson Isn't About Age.

A former Manhattan prosecutor and Goldman Sachs partner spent his retirement studying Aristotle and Hegel instead of coasting — a rebuke, intended or not, to a culture that increasingly outsources thinking to machines.
By Miles Ashford · Sep 4
Ideas · Essay

She Killed Her Children. The Internet Has Already Decided Who Is Guilty.

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial has become a social-media spectacle — and the noise is making it harder, not easier, to reckon with what actually happened.
By Tessa Vaughan · Aug 18
Culture

Galliano Steps Down. The Question Is Who Anointed Him.

The designer's exit as 2027 Met Gala honoree came after backlash over his history of antisemitism — but a Free Press podcast is asking why the institutions that celebrated him for decades are only now discovering a conscience.
By Miles Ashford · Sep 4
Business

Meta Pays Billions. Regulators Pick the Cure.

A New Mexico judge and a 47-state coalition have extracted a combined $18.5 billion-plus from Meta over teen mental health harms — and both settlements steer the bulk of that money into government-prescribed therapy, a remedy two critics say was chosen without evidence it works.
By Helen Okafor · Sep 4
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