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What. A. Week.
Batya Ungar-Sargon at the RNC. (All photos courtesy of The Free Press)
We were on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reporting history as it unfolded.
By Bari Weiss
07.21.24
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What. A. Week.

One Free Press editor—a newsroom veteran who remembers JFK’s assassination—says that the events of the past few days are unlike any she has seen in her lifetime.

“Trump’s been shot.” Those were the words Nellie and I heard hours after she went into labor on Saturday. By that evening, we published a harrowing piece by Salena Zito, who was fo…

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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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