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By Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
10.17.23
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Ever since we first heard the news of Hamas’s attack on Israel ten days ago, we’ve been throwing everything we have at covering those atrocities and their many ripple effects. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re publishing more stories than ever, as we try our hardest to make sense of a world that feels like it was turned upside down. 

We are going to cont…

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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.
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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