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Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend. President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in […]

COVID Origins, Lab-Leak Accountability, And The Next Pandemic Threat The Hudson Institute hosted Dr. Steven Quay on Monday afternoon for a discussion on COVID-19 origins, during which he presented genetic evidence from his new book, The Code as Witness, arguing that the virus originated through gain-of-function research in a Chinese lab. Years later, there has still been no accountability for what Quay argues was a Chinese lab leak that killed more than one million Americans and caused U.S. economic damages in excess of $18 trillion. Nor has there been a unified...

These Are The World's Biggest Beer Brewers Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, but much of it comes from a relatively small group of companies. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Melissa Garside, ranks the world’s 40 largest beer brewers by production volume using data from the BarthHaas Report 2024/25. Together, these brewers produced 42.7 billion U.S. gallons of beer in 2024, equal to 86.3% of global production. AB InBev Leads by a Wide Margin AB InBev dominated the global beer industry in 2024, producing 13.1 billion U.S. gallons, or 26.4% of all...