Michael D. Weiss

Daily Beast / The Interpreter

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Michael Weiss is a senior editor at the Daily Beast and the editor-in-chief of The Interpreter, a daily online journal that translates media from the Russian press into English. He is the co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.

Weiss is a former fellow at the Institute of Modern Russia.

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