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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Storm Warnings
President Donald Trump greets supporters in Greenville, South Carolina, on February 20, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Under duress, I’ve been forced to pick just a handful of must-reads from the dozens of stories we’ve published this week. Take a look.
By Bari Weiss
04.25.25 — Editors' Picks
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Something to keep in mind as we head into the weekend: We’re still less than 100 days into President Trump’s second term.

Depending on how you feel about him, this thought is likely to bring either elation—almost four more years of ye golden age!—or sink you even deeper into the pit you’ve called home since Inauguration Day. (Not to mention Liberation Day, which somehow happened less than a month ago.)

Next week, we’ll have voices from across The Free Press universe and beyond weigh in on the first few months of Trump 2.0. Expect strong arguments and thoughtful disagreements, because that’s what we do here.

In the meantime, we published dozens of stories this week, including a major scoop on how the State Department is being totally reorganized under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and an interview with Rubio himself.

Under duress, I’ve been forced to pick just a handful to be my must-reads of the week. Take a look.

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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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