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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Life and Death
“For millennia,” medical ethicist L.S. Dugdale writes, death “was fairly straightforward.” (Photo by Stan Grossfeld via Getty Images)
A family living in the shadow of the American dream. Nuclear revival in Kentucky. The doctors redefining death. And much, much more.
By Bari Weiss
08.22.25 — Editors' Picks
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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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