June 3, 2025 Image Description: Cartoon-style illustration of a person with long blond hair, dressed in a blue sweater, white pants, and green sneakers, watering a potted plant that’s sprouting leaves and gold coins. By Ayush Kumar via Unsplash. “Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,others by first do no harm or take no morethan you…
Here’re the July PPI and CPI for coffee. Figure 1: PPI for roasted coffee, n.s.a. (blue), and CPI for coffee, s.a. (tan), all in logs 2025M01=0. Source: BLS via FRED, and author’s calculations. Note that near month futures for coffee are roughly the same in July as in January. This suggests that to a first…
Politics / August 18, 2025 Anything is possible in the coming days and weeks, but it’s difficult not to feel like we are veering toward escalating violence. Ad Policy Members of the National Guard walk on the National Mall on August 14, 2025, in Washington, DC, following President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces and…
By Mr. Maverick At first glance, the title is semantically void, even nonsensical. Both words are synonymous and carry the same connotation. If you’re Greece, however, and you add the word ‘qualitative’ before edge and the words ‘of collapse’ next to verge, then you start to paint a picture. Let’s crash through the surface and…
Question: Suppose the demand for fentanyl is perfectly inelastic, and that the users of fentanyl steal from others to acquire the money to pay for it. In an effort to crack down on fentanyl use, the government imposes harsher penalties on suppliers of fentanyl, reducing its supply. How will this policy affect the amount of…
Newsmax will pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a lawsuit over the network’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election. In this photo from April 3, 2025, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani join others at the opening of trading at the New York Stock Exchange. Michael…
What happens when one brings together Scotland’s most storied whisky houses with a creative force of Parisian couture? The answer is “Couture Expression”, a first-of-its-kind collaboration that sees Johnnie Walker Vault’s partner with Olivier Rousteing — the visionary creative director of Balmain — in a pursuit to reimagine whisky as more than a spirit. Rousteing…
So far this year, cholera has killed more than 4,300 people across 31 countries. These figures are underestimates and there is particular concern for those impacted by war in Sudan, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Yemen. In Sudan, the disease has already claimed over 1,000 lives since 1 January. It…
Fans Say Costco’s New Sparkling Protein Drink Is “Revolutionary” Delish And just like that, the CEO of Genius Gourmet, the maker of the “revolutionary” sparkling protein water just deleted his LinkedIn. 👀🫠 https://t.co/1q6jRLxz3l pic.twitter.com/uEIcEytZEl — James Li (@5149jamesli) August 17, 2025 Astronomers discover an ‘interstellar tunnel’ that connects our solar system to other stars Earth.com…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. During his first term, President Donald Trump frequently turned to the issue of mental health, framing it as a national crisis that demanded action. He linked it to opioid addiction, mass shootings and…