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In case you missed them, we had a number of must-read stories last month that covered the full spectrum of Free Press journalism—illuminating essays on modern life, forays into our current DSA-dominated political moment, high-stakes investigations, and, of course, a hefty dose of Tough Love.

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Frannie Block wrote one of the most devastating stories we’ve run all year: A New York school suspended a 15-year-old boy over a sexual assault allegation, never called his parents, and never let him defend himself. He died by suicide hours later.

On the political front, Jake Altman spent over a decade inside the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and walked through what the organization’s new platform reveals about what its rising stars actually believe. Evan Barker, a former Democratic operative who worked alongside many of those same candidates, argued that this is only the beginning of the party’s leftward lurch.

Meanwhile, Douglas Murray dug into why New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning a local mayoralty into a proxy war with Benjamin Netanyahu. And in one of our most-discussed essays of the summer, Niall Ferguson teamed up with AI researcher John-Clark Levin to make a chilling case: The tools that once beat back Holocaust denial are losing to AI and the algorithm.

Tanya Lukyanova reported the story of a young man who went into the ICU and died without a doctor ever physically examining him—treated instead by a physician on a screen, 12 miles away.

Finally, Abigail Shrier told a 39-year-old man exactly why his “overall wonderful partner” leaves him drained after every date. And Arthur Brooks was refreshingly honest about the contradiction at the center of his own life—a happiness expert who can’t stop running himself into the ground.

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