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Mahatma Gandhi tours India during the partition riots following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Eli Lake reflects on this time in his latest Breaking History podcast. (Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images, illustration by The Free Press)
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By Bari Weiss
05.30.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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Here’s one thing I’ve noticed: The world is now divided. No, not into red or blue, or smokers versus vapers, or MAHA devotees against Big Mac enthusiasts.

It’s divided into listeners and readers. I know this because I constantly meet people who read The Free Press, but have never listened to an episode of Honestly. Or people who are Honestly devotees who…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. 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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