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Best of The Free Press: Don’t Lie
Best of The Free Press: Don’t Lie
Shelle Lichti in Joliet, Illinois, on December 10, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis for The Free Press)
Oliver Wiseman reflects on one clear—and crucial—lesson of this turbulent political year.
By Oliver Wiseman
12.24.24 — The Front Page
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Best of The Free Press: Don’t Lie

Welcome back to our holiday series, Best of The Free Press—your essential guide to all the stories you need to read before the year’s end. Each day this week (except Sunday—that’s for Things Worth Remembering), a different Free Presser will nominate a handful of the illuminating, challenging, or just plain delightful pieces we published over the year, a…

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Oliver Wiseman

Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.

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