Weekly Briefing

Why Trump is in the driver’s seat in his meeting with Xi

Nearly a decade ago, at his Mar-a-Lago home, newly elected Donald Trump met with China’s leader Xi Jinping for the first time. Trump was not naïve about China—he had written about China’s cheating on trade, currency manipulation, and technology theft in his 2011 book, Time

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The Hate Mongers at Southern Poverty Law Center Attacked PRI

In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center put a bullseye on our backs. We at the Population Research Institute were smeared as “radical right extremists” who, for opposing population control and gender ideology and defending the natural family and unborn life, were accused of promoting

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Is Immigration a Solution to Falling Fertility Rates? 

As the Supreme Court deliberates on whether “birthright citizenship” is constitutional (it’s not), left-wing media outlets are suddenly very, very concerned about falling American birth rates. They are claiming that if we don’t allow illegal aliens to enter the U.S., and then magically create citizens

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“Abortion via WhatsApp”

Just how easy is it to obtain the abortion pill, even in countries where it is illegal? PRI’s Latin American office decided to find out. We called up the abortion network DKT International via WhatsApp, answered a few questions, and a few days later the

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Contraceptive Causes Brain Tumors

Anita Petersen was only 47 years old when she died suddenly in October 2024.  It took an autopsy to reveal the cause of death.  This revealed that she had been suffering from an intracranial meningioma—more commonly known as a brain tumor.  It was bleeding caused

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TED “Audaciously” Promotes Abortion

The money had to come from somewhere. The shuttering of USAID did not mean the end of the global abortion movement. But it did set the ghoulish grifters at Planned Parenthood, MSI Reproductive Choices, the Population Council, and Ipas on a frantic quest for new

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