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The World Cup kicked off this week – but in the days leading up to it, “no one seemed all that excited”, said Jonathan Lemire in The Atlantic. The tournament will feature 48 nations playing 104 fixtures in 16 cities across the US, Canada and Mexico, and will give a stage to “some of the most famous ...

US ethics watchdogs argue that no other president has exploited his position for gain as extensively as Donald Trump What sort of figures are involved?Being a “dealmaker” has always been part of Donald Trump’s brand, and he was never shy about, as Forbes puts it, “leveraging the presidency for profi...
An Australian academic who wrote a newspaper column advising students not to “cut corners” by using AI has admitted that she used AI to write the piece. In the article in The Sydney Morning Herald, Professor Cath Ellis urged students not to “outsource your thinking”. But other academics spotted that...
“Being able to endure loathing with self-possession is now a crucial attribute in public life. Leaders across Europe are despised by their electorates with an intensity that confounds political scientists. Commentators struggle to explain why exactly Keir Starmer is held by much of the public not me...

What the US is trying to do in Kenya reeks of “neo-colonialism”, said The Daily Nation (Nairobi). To protect Americans from the deadly Ebola outbreak that is thought to have already killed at least 91 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Trump administration has decreed that no one ...
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