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Bari’s Picks of the Week: Heroes, Radicals, and Gen Z’s Hottest Show
President Donald Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill on the South Lawn of the White House. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, the AI Grim Reaper comes for consulting, Gen Z’s obsession with ‘Love Island,’ and much more.
By Bari Weiss
07.11.25 — Editors' Picks
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It’s been seven days since President Trump signed his massive, sweeping, and extremely expensive “Big Beautiful Bill,” which our Tyler Cowen called “one of the most radical experiments in fiscal policy in my lifetime.”

Tyler was one of many contributors to our symposium on the BBB, featuring analysis and critiques from across the political spectrum. In c…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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