Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit

Jill Biden's Memoir Tour Is Getting Trashed From The Left Jill Biden has launched a book tour for her new memoir, View from the East Wing, in what appears to be an effort to salvage her husband's political legacy after his 2024 campaign collapsed following his disastrous debate with President Trump. Instead, she's reopening a wound Democrats spent two years trying to let heal. Now, former aides, party operatives, and even friendly media figures are speaking out. Last week, the former first lady sat down with CBS News correspondent Rita Braver and...

Depopulation Won't Save Us Or The Planet Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, In recent years, a strand of environmental thinking has emerged that places population at the center of ecological crises. Some activists, including figures associated with the Extinction Rebellion and the Stop Having Kids Movements Movement in the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed anti-natalist views, arguing that choosing not to have children is a meaningful response to climate change. The reasoning is lucid and, at first glance, convincing: fewer people should mean less consumption, lower emissions,...

Strongest El Nino In 75 Years Sets Off Food Supply-Chain Alarm Bells The US Climate Prediction Center has warned that the weather phenomenon El Niño, which only recently emerged across the Pacific, could become the most powerful in more than 75 years. This raises the risk of adverse weather conditions across the US, Asia, Australia, and South America. The stronger the weather event becomes, the greater the threat to critical food supply chains, which are already vulnerable to drought, flooding, export restrictions, and rising protectionism. The CPC, a NOAA/National Weather...