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.
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'Inverse vaccine' shows promise treating MS, other autoimmune diseases
New research effectively cured mice of multiple sclerosis–type symptoms. Could this work in humans?
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Russia's Crimea fleet shipyard on fire after Ukrainian missile strike
Photos and videos showed huge explosions and raging fires at the Sevastopol Shipyard
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You can now get a new Covid booster shot. Should you?
Unless you are old or otherwise at high risk, it isn't a 'slam dunk'
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Thousands feared dead in catastrophic Libya flooding
Speed Read A powerful Mediterranean storm pummeled Libya's northeast coast, wiping out entire neighborhoods
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Your new car may be a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'
Speed Read New cars come with helpful bells and whistles, but also cameras, microphones and sensors that are reporting on everything you do
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Elon Musk used Starlink, which saved Ukraine, to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia's Crimea fleet
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Tuberville's military promotions block is upending lives, combat readiness, 3 military branch chiefs say
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How Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio's 22-year sentence compares to other Jan. 6 punishments
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Exodus begins from Burning Man after desert mud trapped tens of thousands
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U.S. health agency advises easing federal marijuana restrictions
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Medicare drug price negotiations start with 1st 10 drugs, pharmaceutical industry lawsuits
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Fox News apologizes to Gold Star family for false story Marine Corps called 'disgusting'
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Watch Simone Biles win her record 8th US gymnastics championship
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Nobody seems surprised Wagner's Prigozhin died under suspicious circumstances
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Ukraine's counteroffensive is making incremental gains. Does it matter in the broader war?
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Mobsters jailed by Giuliani are 'thrilled' with his RICO prosecution. Former fans are sad.
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Police video shows GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson profanely threatening Texas trooper in rodeo altercation
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Kansas police raid small-town local newspaper, setting off a press freedoms clash
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Maui wildfire death toll hits 53, expected to rise, in Hawaii's 'largest natural disaster'
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Ecuador anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead before election
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Maui wildfires kill 6, destroy historic tourist town Lahaina
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'Circular saw blades' divide controversial Rio Grande buoys installed by Texas governor
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Ohio voters defeat GOP measure to raise referendum threshold
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Should you even bother throwing plastic in the recycling bin?
In Depth Recycling plastic is garbage, Greenpeace says. So, landfill then?
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