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The ‘What If’ Midterms

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Today in Free Expression:

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Emma Camp: Does This Beloved Fitness Park Actually Need Fixing?

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A Tammany Hall for Muslims in the West

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‘NAZA’ Has Nada on Israel

‘NAZA’ directors Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham in New York on Sept. 26. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Did you realize Israel has killed 40% of the population of Gaza in the last three years? The number seems excessive. Unreasonab...

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Man’s Best Friend—Forever

‘Good Boy,’ 2025. Photo: Alamy

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  • WSJ Free Expression

    A daily newsletter on life, culture and politics from WSJ Opinion

  • Mary Julia Koch

    I'm an associate editor of Free Expression, a new daily newsletter from The Wall Street Journal Opinion page.

  • Emma Camp

    Writing a book on Gen Z and risk-aversion // WSJ Free Expression writer.

  • Louise Perry

    Writer

  • Spencer Klavan

    Host of the Young Heretics podcast and author of How to Save the West. Tweets @spencerklavan.

  • Matthew Continetti

    Matthew Continetti is a columnist for Free Expression and Wall Street Journal Opinion. He is the director of domestic policy studies and inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute.

  • Lauren Stoneman
  • Kyle Smith

    Film critic and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and theater critic for The New Criterion.

  • Zach Kessel

    Assistant editor of Free Expression at Wall Street Journal Opinion.

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