Maybe Trump Shouldn’t Visit Xi After All When Donald Trump visits his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next month, “President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug,” the American president predicted the other day. “Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT ...

Trump can't ask Xi to concede anything big. But Xi will ask Trump — and Taiwan could end up the loser, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Venezuela Needs María Corina Machado at Home Economic news in Venezuela is moving at a dizzying speed.

The Trump administration’s focus on securing business advantages in Venezuela rather than spurring political reform risks becoming a serious strategic mistake, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it. The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed.

Yet more dirt from the dirtiest administration since Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome. Donald Trump is the Grifter-in-Chief. Corruption is the mother's milk of his family. Witkoff, Lutnick etc. are walking conflicts of interest. Wake up, 'Murrica. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Maybe Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth will buy the ex-Labor Secretary a drink to celebrate her resignation.

'Tis as inflated as its subject....

Is destiny about to reach us? What happens when we have too few kids.

Is destiny about to reach us? @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social resurfaces Soylent Green (Charlton Heston's classic) to look at how our collective imagination deals with the existential fear of environmental and societal collapse. Now do Omega Man! open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...

Orban’s Defeat Reveals Populism’s Achilles Heel The humiliation of the architect of “illiberal populism” has understandably led to much rejoicing in the liberal camp. Rejoicing and excited speculation that, set alongside Donald Trump’s troubles, Ni...

Hungary’s election result tells us something more important than when populism will die. It tells us what will kill it, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's adrian wooldridge www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Look to Latin America’s Oil Boom for Energy Security From the ultra-deep waters of Brazil’s Santos Basin to the arid shale fields of Argentina’s Patagonia, a new hydrocarbon boom is welling up across Latin America.

The US war with Iran gives Latin America a chance to position itself as a steady, energy-rich supplier in a region largely free of major interstate conflict, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

America’s Global Rizz Is Going Up in Smoke Soft power: An American pope understands and wields it; an American president does not understand it and keeps destroying it.

The US used to be cool. Under Trump II, the brand's becoming toxic, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Our children are the sickest generation in modern history," says RFK jr. Please explain this to me. Using what yardstick? How do you define "modern history"? And if you feel that way, RFK, how can you work for a prez who's making our air, water and Earth sicker with every executive order?

This is what real progress looks like for one of the deadliest cancers, says @lisamjarvis.bsky.social 🎥

I'm puzzled by this "real potatoes" claim. Are any potato chips made with fake potatoes? Is this how I got all that plastic in my bloodstream?

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

“Telling Iran’s negotiators that Trump wants their people to prosper is not diplomacy. It is a sales pitch being made to buyers who are not in the market, delivered by a salesman whose company has defaulted on previous contracts.”

This is telling. With a war on, you would think the Centcom commander would be in the region 24/7, not making occasional visits from Tampa. Centcom has a forward HQ at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. I can only conclude Adm. Cooper isn’t working from there because it’s considered too dangerous.

Serious question: Have any of Scott Bessent's predictions as Treasury Secretary come true?

Robert F. Kennedy was an American hero. His son RFK jr. is an American zero. Ask any raccoon or dead bear cub. He should be in a padded cell, not in higher office.

Let's be sure to savor the irony that one of the chief intermediaries between the US and Iran on their nuclear disagreement is a country that surreptitiously built its own bomb. Somewhere, Abdul Qadeer Khan is chuckling.

Don’t Give Up (Yet) on Getting World Cup Tickets Less than 60 days before the start of the World Cup, I am already panicking: All my attempts to get tickets to see Argentina and Lionel Messi at football’s greatest tournament have failed miserably.

Getting a ticket for the World Cup is not for the faint of heart or light of wallet. @jpspinetto.bsky.social on what fans can still do to realize an increasingly elusive and expensive dream www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Boston’s Michelle Wu Is a Model Wartime Mayor Building affordable housing and filling potholes while trying to protect a democracy and economy under siege: Welcome to the world of a blue-city boss in the Trump era.

"In Boston, the MAGA campaign to destroy research and innovation is not just a moral calamity and rising menace to public health. It is economic warfare," says @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

America’s Amateur Diplomats Are Set Up to Fail The negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad had to fail. That doesn’t mean future rounds, perhaps already starting this week, are futile. But the American approach to diplomacy ha...

The US struggles to end the wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza for two reasons, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's @andreaskluth.bsky.social: First, its diplomats are amateurs or worse. Second, so is their boss. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Perhaps having your face frozen in a botox rictus is a really good qualification for being a death doula...

JD Vance lecturing the Pope about matters of theology is laughable. He might look in the mirror and ask himself why he is in league with someone he once likened to Hitler.

Artemis Was a State Failure and a Human Triumph For all its well-earned acclaim, NASA’s most recent moon mission also epitomized the worst excesses and flaws of the US space program and took risks out of proportion to its rewards.

For all its well-earned acclaim, NASA’s most recent moon mission also epitomized the worst excesses and flaws of the US space program and took risks out of proportion to its rewards, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's Timothy Lavin www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Boston’s Michelle Wu Is a Model Wartime Mayor Building affordable housing and filling potholes while trying to protect a democracy and economy under siege: Welcome to the world of a blue-city boss in the Trump era.

"The greatest threat to Boston’s people, 256 years after the Boston Massacre, might be another remote ruling power." @opinion.bloomberg.com's @franciswilkinson.bsky.social on Michelle Wu's effort to rebuild trust in a local government that Trump is busy undermining. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

It’s the Worst Time to Be an American Ally The Iran war, which is now likely to flare up again after talks in Islamabad between Washington and Tehran have failed, has been a humanitarian, economic and geopolitical disaster. One heuristic for g...

One accelerant of America’s decline as a superpower: former allies will look elsewhere for their safety, while adversaries will recalculate the right time to challenge Washington head-on, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Morning After Islamabad The negotiations went nowhere. Now we’re in a precarious moment, with a high risk of each side misreading the other.

Some smart post-Islamabad prognosticating from @ghoshworld.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bobbygho...

Boston's Michelle Wu is trying to rebuild trust in a local government that Washington is determined to undermine, says @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Peru's economy keeps humming despite relentless political chaos, but that unstable dynamic is bound to end in tears, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️