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Mayor Mamdani released his map of New York City’s “immigrant enclaves.” Except, he forgot a few spots. Little Italy—one of the oldest immigrant communities in New York City—didn’t make the cut. Here’s what the Italian-Americans whose families have been a part of Little Italy’s history told @IsabellaRedjai.

Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift's wedding. Plus: Her ode to ‘Jackass.’ An interview with the standard bearer for MAGA’s anti-AI rage. And more in her newsletter! thefp.com/p/taylor-swift…

The conventional wisdom is that Democrats are better off without him. But Susan Collins is strong, and Platner’s successors lack much of what made him a threat, writes Mark Halperin. thefp.com/p/graham-platn…

Those who hated the senator for not turning against Trump gave him too little credit for what he was able to achieve by forging a friendship with the president, writes Eli Lake. thefp.com/p/lindsey-grah…

If you told me a decade ago that antisemites would be increasingly dominant within the Democratic Party, I would have said you were nuts. And yet here we are, writes John Podhoretz. thefp.com/p/antisemitism…

What alarmed me most wasn’t the suspected misconduct. It was how reluctant my university seemed to confront it, writes Roberto Serrano. thefp.com/p/brown-univer…

The conventional wisdom is that Democrats are better off without him. But Susan Collins is strong, and Platner’s successors lack much of what made him a threat, writes Mark Halperin. thefp.com/p/graham-platn…

Those who hated the senator for not turning against Trump gave him too little credit for what he was able to achieve by forging a friendship with the president, writes Eli Lake. thefp.com/p/lindsey-grah…

If you told me a decade ago that antisemites would be increasingly dominant within the Democratic Party, I would have said you were nuts. And yet here we are, writes John Podhoretz. thefp.com/p/antisemitism…

’She has always insisted on having her own bank account,’ writes a husband, whose wife has been ’transferring money from our joint account’ without explanation. Abigail Shrier weighs in. thefp.com/p/tough-love-a…

After years of estrangement from my family—and the collapse of my public life—I found an unexpected path toward forgiveness in the quiet moral world of Walnut Grove, writes Joseph Massey. thefp.com/p/little-house…

The referee of the Argentina-Egypt match isn't Jewish. But when his Wikipedia page was changed to say that he is, an even bigger set of lies about Israel and Jews raced across the internet, writes Ashley Rindsberg. thefp.com/p/how-wikipedi…

Plus: Paris Hilton’s quest for rich-kid justice, death doulas, and why Americans don’t care about the World Cup. thefp.com/p/all-the-deta…

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is only the latest adaptation of a story that has captivated audiences for three millennia. Here's why the epic poem has never lost its hold on us, writes Daniel Mendelsohn. thefp.com/p/daniel-mende…

Suzy Weiss on Taylor Swift's wedding. Plus: Her ode to ‘Jackass.’ An interview with the standard bearer for MAGA’s anti-AI rage. And more in her newsletter! thefp.com/p/taylor-swift…

Why do conspiracy theorists continue to obsess over Charlie Kirk’s assassination? Despite overwhelming evidence presented at this week’s preliminary hearing in Charlie Kirk’s murder case in Utah, the theories haven’t stopped. The answer, @michaelshermer writes, “has to do with ‘proportionality bias,’ a well-documented concept in the study of conspiracy theories.” It “kicks in when there is an imbalance or mismatch between the size or importance of an event and that of its purported cause,” he adds. Read the full analysis here: bit.ly/4fvsu1t

Stop scrolling. The Free Press’s @river_is_nice spent last week at a Luddite festival in New York City. After a group meditation session in a Quaker meetinghouse, “I walked outside to smoke a cigarette and bummed a lighter from an Australian woman sitting on the steps,” he writes. “She said she’d stopped by the event on her way home from work; she crews a sailboat that brings freight down the Hudson River—‘slow shipping,’ she described it. She wanted me to refer to her by a pseudonym, and suggested Raya. When I told her it’s also the name of an invitation-only dating app for celebrities, she said: ‘Not that then. Call me Waterbed.’ ” “Waterbed is 43 and has spent most of her life living in hippie communes,” he continues. “Having never really gotten on board with tech to begin with, she does not consider herself a Luddite—although, in many ways, she might be the realest one I met all week. She got her first cell phone at 32, and has no data plan; she uses only WiFi. She’s never bought a brand-new computer.” “The truth about the new Luddites is that they want to be like Waterbed, but they can’t be. They were born too late or they want too much, which is to say, they want something approximating a normal life, something Waterbed doesn’t seem to have had,” Page writes. “But the truth is, even Waterbed has WhatsApp.” Read his full dispatch here: bit.ly/4qSKx4W.

The referee of the Argentina-Egypt match isn't Jewish. But when his Wikipedia page was changed to say that he is, an even bigger set of lies about Israel and Jews raced across the internet, writes Ashley Rindsberg. thefp.com/p/how-wikipedi…

Christopher Nolan's blockbuster is only the latest adaptation of a story that has captivated audiences for three millennia. Here's why the epic poem has never lost its hold on us, writes Daniel Mendelsohn. thefp.com/p/daniel-mende…

Clavicular isn’t trying to get political with his Israel trip. He came to party, meet girls, and talk looksmaxxing. And weirdly that may have more of an impact than if he were to visit the Nova Music Festival site or meet with former hostages. There’s something powerful to showing his audience that Israel isn’t the pariah state they’ve been told it is—it’s actually one of the greatest tourist destinations on earth with unmatched clubs, beautiful women, and pristine beaches.

About six months ago, Jewish leaders nationwide condemned the Gen-Z icon for partying to ‘Heil Hitler.’ Now he’s in Tel Aviv to ‘have a good time,' writes Olivia Reingold. thefp.com/p/clavicular-i…