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By Bari Weiss
10.10.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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Hi folks. It’s been an exciting week at The Free Press. If you missed our big announcement, you can read all about it here. It’s a new chapter for The Free Press: same mission, much bigger stage.

You may have also noticed that we took down the paywall this week. That means that until Sunday, all of our content—Columns! Livestreams! Podcasts!—is available…

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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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