Peter Weber, The Week US
Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University. He graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in international studies and performance studies and served in the Peace Corps in Honduras.
Peter has lived in Italy and all major quadrants of the continental U.S. and currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he plays bass and rhythm cello in a garage band.
Latest articles by Peter Weber, The Week US
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A running list of Clarence Thomas' many scandals
In Depth The Supreme Court justice has 'engaged in a yearslong pattern of behaving in ways that other justices, and many elected politicians, do not'
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Chris Christie slams Trump, disparages other GOP rivals as he exits presidential race
Speed Read The GOP presidential field's harshest (and only) Trump critic bows out swinging
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Ecuador tips toward chaos amid prison breaks, armed TV takeover
Speed Read New President Daniel Noboa authorized the military to 'neutralize' powerful drug-linked gangs after they unleashed violence and terror across Ecuador
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United and Alaska find loose bolts on Boeing 737 Max 9s grounded after midair blowout
Speed Read Preliminary inspections of Max 9 emergency door plugs suggest a possible broader problem with how the aircraft were assembled or modified
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Pentagon struggles to explain Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalization
Speed Read The intensely private Pentagon chief kept even President Joe Biden in the dark about his illness for 3 days
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Russia's thorny convict-soldier problem
Under the Radar Putin's Ministry of Defense, like Wagner, is recruiting soldiers from Russian prisons to fight his Ukraine war. Russians aren't excited about them returning home.
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Seattle Children's Hospital sues Texas over 'sham' demand for transgender medical records
Speed Read Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton subpoenaed records of any Texan who received gender-affirming care at the Washington hospital
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Venezuela trades 10 Americans and wanted fugitive 'Fat Leonard' for Maduro ally
Speed Read The sizable prisoner swap returned to US custody the central figure in one of the US military's biggest bribery scandals
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Does Colorado's decision to ban Trump from the GOP ballot threaten his candidacy?
Today's Big Question The Colorado Supreme Court said Donald Trump's engagement in 'insurrection' makes him ineligible to be president again
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The Vatican's same-sex blessing approval: What is Pope Francis doing?
Today's Big Question The pope rocked the Catholic world by giving the green light to blessing same-sex couples, with plenty of caveats
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Afghanistan has a growing female suicide problem
Speed Read The Taliban has steadily whittled away women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan over the past 2 years, prompting a surge in depression and suicide
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Florida GOP strips chair Christian Ziegler of power and pay amid rape allegation, sex scandal
Speed Read Ziegler denies the rape accusation but admits to other sexual conduct the Florida GOP says 'renders him unfit for the office'
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EU approves Ukraine membership talks after Hungary's Orbán steps outside for coffee
Speed Read Orbán blocked $54 billion in European Union aid to Ukraine but surprised everybody by declining to veto Kyiv's accession upgrade
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House GOP approves Biden impeachment inquiry to seek evidence of wrongdoing
Speed Read Democrats denounced the vote as a barren political stunt to mollify Trump's calls for retribution
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New York's high court orders new congressional districts, potentially flipping US House
Speed Read Districts drawn by a court-appointed special master in 2022 led to Republicans flipping four House seats
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Texas Supreme Court denies judge-approved abortion for woman with nonviable pregnancy
Speed Read Kate Cox, a Dallas mom of 2, left Texas to obtain an abortion after the state's highest court stepped in
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Why Israel's Netanyahu encouraged suitcases of cash for Gaza
Speed Read Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say he was trying to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu's critics, citing his own words, say he was trying to buy — and thwart — peace.
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Where is the American dream now?
In Depth Polls and pundits agree that the American dream is on life support. But there may be a cure — and the news of its imminent death may be greatly exaggerated.
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Ukraine's fraught relationship with Russia: a brief history
In Depth Russia and Ukraine are bound together by history and geography, but Putin sees danger in that symbiosis
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Texas judge approves abortion of nonviable fetus, drawing threat from Texas attorney general
Speed Read Kate Cox petitioned to terminate her doomed pregnancy, salvaging her uterus and the option to try for more children
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Why Sen. Tommy Tuberville finally dropped his military promotions blockade
Speed Read The Alabama senator had been blocking the advancement of senior officers for 10 months, despite growing political blowback
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Ex-US diplomat confessed spying for Cuba to undercover agent, FBI says
Speed Read DOJ says former US ambassador Manuel Rocha perpetrated 'one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent'
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Florida GOP chair says prurient sex and rape allegations won't force him out
Speed Read Republicans are calling on Christian Ziegler, half of a Florida GOP power couple, to step down after a police report revealed a sexual battery allegation and a consensual threesome
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Israel reportedly had actual Hamas attack plan a year before Oct. 7 assault
Speed Read Israeli officials considered the intercepted battle plan too ambitious and out of step with their view that Hamas didn't want a war with Israel, documents show
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