German Chancellor Merz: Iran Is Humiliating the US

How The World Added Decades To Life Expectancy The average person today can expect to live far longer than someone born in 1960, regardless of where they live. This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks life expectancy at birth across four World Bank income groups. While high-income countries still have the longest lifespans, the biggest gains have come elsewhere. Upper-middle income countries have added more than three decades to life expectancy, while low-income countries have made substantial progress as well. The data for this visualization comes from World Bank via FRED. It...

The Barbell Economy: Why The Middle Is Vanishing Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, There’s a pattern quietly reshaping daily life, work, and society itself. Economists now call it the “barbell economy.” Value, growth, and opportunity concentrate at the two extremes—ultra-cheap utility on one end, premium experience and status on the other—while the broad, reasonable middle thins out. Once you start noticing it, you can’t unsee it. And the data show it isn’t a fleeting trend. Start with something as ordinary as dinner. Fast-food drive-throughs, delivery apps, and value menus...

World Cup: Where's The Beer? Authored by Noel Williams via AmericanThinker.com, So far, the World Cup is living up to Gianni Infantino’s (FIFA President) clarion call to “unite the world” (or at least the participating nations therein). Of course, that could quickly change when we get to the knockout stages of the tournament when they're more overwrought emotions and rivalries are more intense. In the meantime, soccer fans from far-flung places are reveling in America’s beauty and bounty. They appreciate America more than Dems, which is not surprising since most Dems are anti-American. There are three...