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It’s Wednesday, July 1. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Olivia Reingold and Peter Savodnik on the latest win for the DSA and the fight for the future of the Democratic Party. Jill Schlesinger on why you shouldn’t take financial advice from Boomers. David Mamet’s entry in our Great Americans series. And much more.
But first: The justices tangle with girls’ sports and citizenship.
The Supreme Court closed out its term yesterday with a flurry of major rulings. The justices upheld birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to deny it to children of parents in the country illegally or on temporary visas. It also affirmed that states can bar biological male athletes from girls’ and women’s sports. Today, our writers dig into what these rulings mean.
By a 5–4 vote, the justices held that children born to illegal immigrants and people on temporary visas are American citizens at birth. Jed Rubenfeld calls it a victory not just for the Constitution but for the country—regardless of which side of the issue you’re on. He walks through why the dissenters’ arguments, while not as crazy as the caricatured version of them presented by the media, get the history wrong. Jed also zooms out and looks at the bigger lesson from the decisions made by the Court this term. Read Jed to understand the most anticipated ruling of the year—and the state of play in the fight between the executive and the judiciary.
The Court also ruled yesterday that states may keep biological males off female sports teams. Ilya Shapiro explains the law behind the decision: Title IX, the 1972 law guaranteeing equal athletic opportunity for women, was built from the start around the existence of separate sex categories. The majority, Shapiro argues, simply read the law as it was always written.
Meanwhile, Paula Scanlan lays out the ruling’s stakes. She knows what it’s like to share a locker room with a male athlete and be told to act like it’s normal. As a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, she was one of Lia Thomas’s teammates, and one of the girls who raised concerns to coaches about showering and undressing in front of a male athlete, only to be offered counseling to help her come to terms with it. Today, she celebrates the Court’s ruling and describes what it will mean for the next generation of women in sports.
—The Editors
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Democratic Party Civil War: Victory for the DSA in Denver
Last week’s socialist sweep of New York City’s Democratic primaries sent a loud message, and the party is still figuring out what to do with it. Today, our writers describe what comes next—and whether anyone can stop the wave.
The clash between socialists and “establishment” Democrats continued in another race this week—and socialism keeps on rolling. Olivia Reingold profiles Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old first-time candidate who yesterday defeated the longest-serving member of Colorado’s congressional delegation. She’s a political newcomer who declined to call a firebomb attack on Jews “antisemitic” and justified the attacks of October 7 as “inevitable.” Read Olivia’s piece on Kiros and what her candidacy says about where the party is headed.
Not every Democrat is going along with the tide. Peter Savodnik talks to Tom Suozzi, the Long Island congressman who, days after last week’s primaries, unveiled the “Promise to America”—a pledge to fight back on behalf of capitalism, free speech, and what he sees as the party’s founding ideals. The left and the right, Suozzi tells Peter, want to “tear it all down.” Read his piece to see what Suozzi is seeking for the country.
The socialist wave didn’t come out of nowhere. Olivia has been covering the far left since she first started reporting for The Free Press in 2022—and none of what happened last week surprised her. Today, between 2 and 3 p.m. ET, she’ll answer all your questions in the Forum.
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