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Lose the Mask. Eat the Turkey. And Other Sane Advice for This Thanksgiving.
The Broughton family sits down for Thanksgiving last year in Los Angeles. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
A reasonable doctor’s guide to enjoying the holidays and not killing your grandparents.
By Bari Weiss
11.23.21
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If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a break from work, to bask in the presence of loved ones, and to fight savagely over the most contentious political issues of the day. 

This year, as always, there is plenty to argue about. But nothing can clear a room faster than a debate about Covid.

Should we be gathering out…

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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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