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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How Montana's total TikTok ban is supposed to work
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Durham criticizes FBI, offers little new in final report on 4-year Trump-Russia investigation review
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Wagner's Prigozhin offered Kyiv Russian troop locations for Ukrainian retreat in Bakhmut, leaked intel says
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Ukraine is gaining ground in Bakhmut for the 1st time in months amid Russian disarray
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Texas man who killed protester sentenced to 25 years as Gov. Abbott's pardon vow lingers
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Russia's 'catastrophic' missing men problem
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Norway's near-total adoption of electric vehicles appears to be going smoothly, defying skeptics
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Russia cancels or scales back Victory Day parades amid anxieties over Ukraine war
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At least 8 dead in Brownsville, Texas, after SUV hits crowd outside migrant shelter
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Wagner's Prigozhin posts graphic, profanity-filled video blaming Russia's military for his dead mercenaries
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Clarence and Ginni Thomas face new ethics scrutiny over secret payments, gifted private school tuition
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How the Democrats' push to make the IRS more efficient accelerated the debt limit crisis
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Did Ukraine orchestrate the Kremlin drone strike?
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Late night shows go dark as the Hollywood writers strike begins. Here's what that looks like.
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Texas fugitive accused of killing 5 neighbors found in closet under laundry, police say
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20,000 Russians killed, 80,000 wounded in 'failed' 5-month winter offensive in Ukraine, U.S. says
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What 8 former Fox News stars are doing now
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AI can now read your mind, researchers report as the 'godfather of AI' quits to warn about his life's work
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Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, is dead at 84
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Regulators seize First Republic Bank, sell JPMorgan 'substantially all' remaining assets
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Turkey claims death of 3rd ISIS leader in 2 years
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James Corden hosts his last Late Late Show, with an intervention from fellow late-night hosts
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Disney has an 'extremely strong' case DeSantis is 'weaponizing' the state to punish free speech, lawyers say
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U.S. production of bullets, shells, and missiles sidelined by explosion at 1 Louisiana gunpowder mill
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