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By Bari Weiss
11.24.23
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I’m writing to you from the couch in Pittsburgh, where the fire is burning, my mom is watching the baby, and I’m about to read a novel—a book! For pleasure!—for the first time in many months. I am full of gratitude. 

I’ve always loved Thanksgiving, but I’ve never felt as thankful as I do this year. I am so profoundly aware of how many in the world right …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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