Peter Weber

Senior editor

Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.

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Today's big question

Is America inching toward conflict with China?

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Stay or go?

Zelensky says Ukraine is reinforcing Bakhmut positions, not withdrawing

HR manager shows results of personality test

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Testing testing

Companies are turning to personality tests as remote work takes off

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Culture Wars

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee quietly signs bans on drag shows, gender-affirming care

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Toxic

Who is poisoning Iran's schoolgirls, and why hasn't Tehran stopped them?

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Downsides of growth

Whiskey fungus is ravaging bourbon country, angering homeowners

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Havana syndrome

U.S. intel: Havana Syndrome not caused by foreign adversaries, energy weapons

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Spoiler alerts?

Finland is voting to join NATO, but Hungary is joining Turkey as an obstacle

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Train wrecks

Dozens dead in Greek rail collision between passenger and freight trains

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Drag for me but not for thee

Tennessee governor says photo of him in skirt and wig irrelevant to drag show ban

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Nigeria Votes

Nigeria's Bola Tinubu declared winner of tight presidential election

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Tragicomedy

Elon Musk calls Dilbert 'legit funny & insightful.' Cartoonists disagree.

Jared Kushner and Rupert Murdoch in 2014

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Dominion v. Fox News

Dominion: Rupert Murdoch gave Kushner 'confidential' Biden ad, strategy info

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child labor

Biden administration announces crackdown on child labor violations

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Origin story

U.S. Energy Dept. backs COVID-19 lab leak theory with 'low confidence'

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Numbers

CIA director: Putin 'entirely too confident' he can 'grind down' Ukraine

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Please Clap

2024 may be the 1st year since 1972 no Texan runs for president

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Anniversary Gift

Ukraine reportedly getting 1st Leopard 2 tanks on invasion's anniversary

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In depth

Ukraine's biggest victories — and defeats

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Mixed Messages

Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin claims victory over Russia's military brass

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Mexican Democracy

Mexico's president weakens electoral agency, claims it's to save money

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Work-life balance

9 in 10 businesses keeping 4-day workweek after large U.K. trial

Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in 2003

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Defellowshipped

Southern Baptists expel Saddleback, 4 other churches over women pastors

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Rest in Peace

Housekeeper's husband arrested in murder of Los Angeles Catholic bishop

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'Power-drunk tyrant'

James O'Keefe out at Project Veritas amid bullying, spending charges

Archbishop of Kenya Eliud Wabukala and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby

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Once more into the breach

African Anglicans threaten split from Church of England over same-sex blessing

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'Please get her fired'

Fox News stars privately mocked Trump's vote fraud claims, Dominion suit shows

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'meat grinder'

U.K: Russia's army suffering '1st World War level' casualties in Ukraine

Protest balloons at Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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Chinese spy balloon

Biden expected to address Chinese balloon, unidentified objects Thursday

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To pop a balloon

Why the U.S. shot down Chinese balloon, 3 unidentified objects with missiles

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Briefing

The demise of America's salt lakes

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Shoot first

U.S. may have shot down 3 'benign' objects, 1 errant Chinese spy balloon

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Crime-Fraud Exception

Prosecutors seek to compel Trump lawyer's testimony by citing probable crime

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Mind the Gap

Gen Z is slow getting driver's licenses. Boomers are slow letting theirs go.

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'free gas'

Biden fires Architect of the Capitol amid report he abused his office

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Going solo

What if birth rates are too low because women no longer settle for Mr. Wrong?