From New York, this is Democracy Now.

The bottom market is very tricky.

I was watching it, but if you look at it now, it's beautiful.

The bond market right now is beautiful.

But, yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.

Hours after President Trump imposed tariffs on much of the world provoking global outrage,

he reversed course, backed down on his global trade war, with one major exception, China.

While Trump paused the latest tariffs for most countries for 90 days,

he increased tariffs on Chinese imports to 125%.

We'll speak to two economists, Nancy Chen at Northwestern University, and the Nobel Prize-winning

economist Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia.

Plus, we look at President Trump's latest threats to bomb Iran just days before the U.S.

and Iran hold talks in Oman.

And we speak to Holocaust scholar, Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch.

She recently wrote a piece headlined,

I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime.

Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is right out of their playbook.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The European Union's just announced its pausing retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. one day after

Trump abruptly lowered his so-called reciprocal tariffs on most countries for 90 days, just

hours after they took effect Wednesday. Most U.S. trading partners will now see a

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