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By Freya Sanders
05.04.24 — Culture and Ideas
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The news cycle can feel heavy. Since my colleague Olly Wiseman launched The Front Page on Monday, we’ve run several blazing reports about the protests rocking U.S. college campuses—as well as an op-ed from Frank Bruni on why living in this country often feels so wretched.

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Freya Sanders
Freya Sanders is a senior editor at The Free Press. She runs our culture section, working with a lot of your favorite columnists, including Suzy Weiss, Larissa Phillips, Caitlin Flanagan, Kat Rosenfield, and River Page. She's the editor of both The Weekend Press and our weekly profile column Two Drinks, as well as our beloved advice column, Tough Love with Abigail Shrier. She also edits personal stories—from 'What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter' to 'My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better'—and investigations, from 'A Wife's Revenge From Beyond the Grave' to 'When Freebirth Ends In Death'.
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