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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Hidden Figures
Bari says her talk with Amanda Knox was “one of the best conversations I’ve ever hosted on Honestly.” (Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)
The race to make designer babies. The Democratic financier turned MAGA moneyman. Why Amanda Knox forgave her prosecutor. Taylor Swift. And more.
By Bari Weiss
08.15.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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August is typically the month where news goes to die. But our newsroom hasn’t stopped; we’ve published a string of must-read stories over the last several days.

I’ll get to my favorites in a second. But first: Come hang out with me?

Our next live debate is happening on September 10 in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And the topic could not be hig…

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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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