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Join Bari Weiss and Tyler Cowen in 30 Minutes to Talk Tariffs
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A brilliant strategic move? A catastrophic own goal? We’ll discuss. Bring all your questions.
By Bari Weiss
04.03.25 — The Big Read
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Yesterday in the Rose Garden, President Trump announced the most drastic tariff policies in our lifetime.

Is this a brilliant negotiating tactic—one intended to bring our trading partners to the table? Or is it the opening shot in a catastrophic global trade war?

Closer to home: What does this mean immediately for the price of groceries? How about a new c…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. 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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