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Honestly: Power and Politics with Mike Pompeo
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
07.01.22 — U.S. Politics
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With everything going on here at home you can be forgiven for not focusing on what’s going on in Mariupol or Hong Kong.

But what’s going on in those faraway places has a profound impact on us. For evidence of that truth, look no further than Wuhan. Or at the current price of gas.

The point is that there is little distinction between domestic and foreign p…

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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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