Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

An experiment in language change

The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

But, weirdly, this is fine (for now)

Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue

Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war

From refugee to matriarch: Joanna Kessler, 1929–2025

Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

A 21st century guide to the oldest hatred

Acts allegedly cancelled as venue bar staff express fears of ‘feeling unsafe’

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

A main road through a small town is in desperate need of repair. There's just one small problem: for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist.

With major cuts to foreign assistance announced or anticipated in the US, the UK, and across the EU, and in the World Bank’s subsidized lending program, we must urgently work to get the most out of sh...

Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

Last week we presented some estimates of the extent and distribution of cuts to USAID assistance. Since then, a list of active USAID projects has also been leaked. We recalculate our estimates of acti...

Headlines on aid and global development are grim right now. The decimation of USAID has been swiftly followed by major cuts announced in the UK, and smaller cuts planned from a raft of European donors...

I incurred the wrath of a continent (and the Daily Mail)

For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the