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Founded in 2021 by the former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss as a Substack newsletter, built into a full publication, and acquired by Paramount Skydance in 2025, after which Weiss took a senior editorial role at CBS News.
Its pitch is that mainstream newsrooms have narrowed what can be said, and it publishes writers who fall outside those bounds, including many who consider themselves liberal. Critics argue that a publication defined by opposition to an orthodoxy develops an orthodoxy of its own, and that its critique of institutional media is harder to sustain now that it belongs to a large media corporation.