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Our must-read Free Press stories of the week. If you can’t keep up, just read this every Friday.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Epstein, AI, and More
The war within the American right, the cancellation of a Broadway star, and much more of our best stuff from this week.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Mamdani Mania
Everything from this week’s elections and much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: What Are You Afraid Of?
Trump and China. An Iranian dissident faces her would-be assassins. Inside the Democratic Socialists of America. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: A New Look
What the right gets wrong. What Palantir actually does. Dispatches on drugs. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Americans Get It Done
A few great looks at the Gaza peace deal and how it happened. Woody Allen remembers Diane Keaton. A forgotten American innovator. And more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Make Reading Great Again
A new Free Press podcast about great books. A peace deal in Gaza. The NYPD’s reaction to Mamdani. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Genes, Drones, and More
Niall Ferguson on the future of war. Akhil Reed Amar on our need for a national narrative. Trump’s bombshell announcement on Tylenol and autism. And…
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Fixing America
Ten ideas for repairing the country. Free speech in crisis. Eli Lake on grace in politics. Woody Allen on life and death. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Amy Coney Barrett Live
Amy Coney Barrett at Lincoln Center. Aristocratic tutoring for a new age. A defense of inequality. The UK free speech crisis. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Taking Stock
Tragedy in Minneapolis. The journeys that change us. Taylor Swift’s American love story. And much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Life and Death
A family living in the shadow of the American dream. Nuclear revival in Kentucky. The doctors redefining death. And much, much more.
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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Hidden Figures
The race to make designer babies. The Democratic financier turned MAGA moneyman. Why Amanda Knox forgave her prosecutor. Taylor Swift. And more.
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