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Arthur Brooks: Why Are Young People Choosing OnlyFans Over Love? The answer, I believe, is fear.

Arthur Brooks: Why Are Young People Choosing OnlyFans Over Love? • The answer, I believe, is fear.

Is the Epstein Fallout Spiraling Out of Control? Plus. . . Eli Lake on Marco Rubio’s minor diplomatic miracle. Noah Smith on why you may no longer be the smartest thing on Earth. And more.

Is the Epstein Fallout Spiraling Out of Control? Plus. . . • Eli Lake on Marco Rubio’s minor diplomatic miracle. Noah Smith on why you may no longer be the smartest thing on Earth. And more.

Is Your Life Morally Ambitious Enough? The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s new book argues that talented people should stop playing it safe and start improving the world.

Is Your Life Morally Ambitious Enough? • The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman’s new book argues that talented people should stop playing it safe and start improving the world.

The ‘Epstein Fallout’ Is Spiraling Out of Control Distinctions between the truly culpable and those who are merely bystanders are being lost in the lust to point fingers.

The ‘Epstein Fallout’ Is Spiraling Out of Control • Distinctions between the truly culpable and those who are merely bystanders are being lost in the lust to point fingers.

Marco Rubio’s Minor Diplomatic Miracle At the Munich Security Conference, the secretary of state delivered a bracing critique of European complacency—and got a standing ovation for it.

Marco Rubio’s Minor Diplomatic Miracle • At the Munich Security Conference, the secretary of state delivered a bracing critique of European complacency—and got a standing ovation for it.

They Questioned Trans Medicine for Kids. The World Is Just Catching Up. Jamie Reed, Jesse Singal, and Emily Yoffe on exposing the harms of child gender transition.

They Questioned Trans Medicine for Kids. The World Is Just Catching Up. • Jamie Reed, Jesse Singal, and Emily Yoffe on exposing the harms of child gender transition.

You Are No Longer the Smartest Type of Thing on Earth Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence means we may end up being one of the very last generations to remember what it was like for humans to be in the driver’s seat of the universe.

You Are No Longer the Smartest Type of Thing on Earth • Rapidly advancing artificial intelligence means we may end up being one of the very last generations to remember what it was like for humans to be in the driver’s seat of the universe.

Things Worth Remembering: James Van Der Beek Was the Best of Us The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, who died Wednesday at 48, sought to teach his kids “how easy it can be to laugh, to love, to cry, to learn . . .and to find joy in both the plans and the detours alike.”

Things Worth Remembering: James Van Der Beek Was the Best of Us • The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, who died Wednesday at 48, sought to teach his kids “how easy it can be to laugh, to love, to cry, to learn . . .and to find joy in both the plans and the detours alike.”

The Weekend Press: How to Fall in Love Plus: Suzy Weiss on the new ‘Wuthering Heights.’ The unmissable moments of the Winter Olympics. Tickets to Kat Rosenfield’s book launch. A conversation with the prophet of gender dysphoria. And more!

The Weekend Press: How to Fall in Love • Plus: Suzy Weiss on the new ‘Wuthering Heights.’ The unmissable moments of the Winter Olympics. Tickets to Kat Rosenfield’s book launch. A conversation with the prophet of gender dysphoria. And more!

The Unmissable Winter Olympics The world loves to forget about the winter cousin of the Olympics—but it’s really the best Games.

The Unmissable Winter Olympics • The world loves to forget about the winter cousin of the Olympics—but it’s really the best Games.

The Science of Hooking Up and Settling Down UC Davis professor Paul Eastwick explains what evolutionary psychologists, the media, Jordan Peterson, and incels all get wrong about dating and attraction.

The Science of Hooking Up and Settling Down • UC Davis professor Paul Eastwick explains what evolutionary psychologists, the media, Jordan Peterson, and incels all get wrong about dating and attraction.

Two Drinks with. . . Dr. I Told You So Dr. Paul McHugh was long vilified for his stance on gender dysphoria. At 94, he’s taking his victory lap.

Two Drinks with. . . Dr. I Told You So • Dr. Paul McHugh was long vilified for his stance on gender dysphoria. At 94, he’s taking his victory lap.

Ancient Wisdom: You Should Know Your Family’s Stories At 4, I didn’t know enough to ask my grandfather questions about his past. But he played catch with me, tossing a baseball gently and with patience. And soon enough, stories emerged.

Ancient Wisdom: You Should Know Your Family’s Stories • At 4, I didn’t know enough to ask my grandfather questions about his past. But he played catch with me, tossing a baseball gently and with patience. And soon enough, stories emerged.

How The Free Press Found Me a Husband Free Press Cupid is back, and if you think this is the community where you might find your match, send a short write-up to Cupid@TheFP.com.

How The Free Press Found Me a Husband • Free Press Cupid is back, and if you think this is the community where you might find your match, send a short write-up to Cupid@TheFP.com.

‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Delightfully Perverted Plus: The tech bros are quitting in droves. A new documentary about the Florida man next door. And more!

‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Delightfully Perverted • Plus: The tech bros are quitting in droves. A new documentary about the Florida man next door. And more!

I Married a Man I’d Known a Few Months You have to take your time before you commit to someone. That was the advice I grew up with. I completely ignored it.

I Married a Man I’d Known a Few Months • You have to take your time before you commit to someone. That was the advice I grew up with. I completely ignored it.

Whatever Happened to Sex? Plus . . . A Harvard student says the university has to stop giving everyone A’s. A former FBI agent explains how the agency investigates kidnappings. Gabe Kaminsky’s scoop on the ouster of the antitrust chief.

Whatever Happened to Sex? Plus . . . • A Harvard student says the university has to stop giving everyone A’s. A former FBI agent explains how the agency investigates kidnappings. Gabe Kaminsky’s scoop on the ouster of the antitrust chief.

Arthur Brooks: Opposites Really Do Attract If you have dated a good many people but haven’t felt much of a spark with anybody, the answer might be to stop looking for your cultural twin.

Arthur Brooks: Opposites Really Do Attract • If you have dated a good many people but haven’t felt much of a spark with anybody, the answer might be to stop looking for your cultural twin.

I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A. Most of my classmates arrive here with genuine ambition. We are then dropped into a grading system that quietly trains us to treat intellectual life like an exercise in damage control.

I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A. • Most of my classmates arrive here with genuine ambition. We are then dropped into a grading system that quietly trains us to treat intellectual life like an exercise in damage control.

TGIF: MAGA-Coded Trump course corrects, Kid Rock takes on Bad Bunny, yoga moms revolt, Mamdani lets winter sort it out, WaPo storms its own gates, and so much more.

TGIF: MAGA-Coded • Trump course corrects, Kid Rock takes on Bad Bunny, yoga moms revolt, Mamdani lets winter sort it out, WaPo storms its own gates, and so much more.

The Sexbot Revolution Is Already Here As AI-powered sex dolls inch toward lifelike consciousness, some men are opting out of real relationships entirely. What happens when intimacy no longer requires another human being?

The Sexbot Revolution Is Already Here • As AI-powered sex dolls inch toward lifelike consciousness, some men are opting out of real relationships entirely. What happens when intimacy no longer requires another human being?

Why Is No One Having Sex? ‘I don’t want to perform.’ ‘Sleep wins.’ ‘She doesn’t have the same high sex drive as me.’ I spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession—and this is what they had to say.

Why Is No One Having Sex? • ‘I don’t want to perform.’ ‘Sleep wins.’ ‘She doesn’t have the same high sex drive as me.’ I spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession—and this is what they had to say.

Trump’s Tough-Talking Antitrust Chief Is Pushed Out ‘Competent technocrats do not survive the den of vipers,’ says one of Gail Slater’s allies about her sudden exit.

Trump’s Tough-Talking Antitrust Chief Is Pushed Out • ‘Competent technocrats do not survive the den of vipers,’ says one of Gail Slater’s allies about her sudden exit.

Is the First Lady of Nigeria Scared? When I met her in Washington, D.C., she was reluctant to acknowledge that Christians like her are being attacked in her country—despite all the evidence of widespread atrocities.

Is the First Lady of Nigeria Scared? • When I met her in Washington, D.C., she was reluctant to acknowledge that Christians like her are being attacked in her country—despite all the evidence of widespread atrocities.

How the FBI Is Searching for Nancy Guthrie The creator of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on the investigation’s early stumbles, clues, and doorbell camera footage

How the FBI Is Searching for Nancy Guthrie • The creator of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on the investigation’s early stumbles, clues, and doorbell camera footage

Canada and the U.S. Now Have Something Horrific in Common The rampage in British Columbia destroyed the comfort long clung to by Canadians that school shootings are America’s problem.

Canada and the U.S. Now Have Something Horrific in Common • The rampage in British Columbia destroyed the comfort long clung to by Canadians that school shootings are America’s problem.

Stop Telling Women When to Have a Baby To the men who tell women to spend their 20s having kids: Where is the 25-year-old man who wants to become a father?

Stop Telling Women When to Have a Baby • To the men who tell women to spend their 20s having kids: Where is the 25-year-old man who wants to become a father?

Tough Love: Do I Like Being Single Too Much to Fall in Love? After four years in an unsatisfying relationship, this young woman sees ‘singledom as a complete gift,’ and wants to know: Does she have to settle for a guy? Our advice columnist weighs in.

Tough Love: Do I Like Being Single Too Much to Fall in Love? • After four years in an unsatisfying relationship, this young woman sees ‘singledom as a complete gift,’ and wants to know: Does she have to settle for a guy? Our advice columnist weighs in.

Rand Paul Is Going It Alone. Plus. . . Who should you trust: ChatGPT or your doctor? The real reason Bitcoin crashed. Columbia’s Edward Said Professorship controversy. Ghislane Maxwell’s unearthed deposition. And more.

Rand Paul Is Going It Alone. Plus. . . • Who should you trust: ChatGPT or your doctor? The real reason Bitcoin crashed. Columbia’s Edward Said Professorship controversy. Ghislane Maxwell’s unearthed deposition. And more.

The Secret Lives of Ordinary People Before reality TV, there was Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood.’

The Secret Lives of Ordinary People • Before reality TV, there was Dylan Thomas’ ‘Under Milk Wood.’