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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Six Ways of Seeing a Scandal
The Free Press ran six pieces on the showdown between President Donald Trump and MAGA over Jeffrey Epstein. (Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)
The civil war over Epstein, a wild story about a poet who changed identities, the end of taxpayer-subsidized news, and more.
By Bari Weiss
07.18.25 — Bari’s Picks of the Week
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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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