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By Bari Weiss
12.30.21
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I don’t know about you, but in these last days of the calendar year I make it a point to exercise every day, refill my color-coded ancient grain containers, and revel in the fact that I kept each of last year’s resolutions to a tee. 

I’m kidding. 

It’s about now, when everyone else seems to be in Turks and Caicos with a pre-Covid body, when it’s pouring r…

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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.
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