Donald Trump calls decision by European nations to release diesel from strategic reserves a ‘great thing’

Playwright James Graham on an economist who asked the right questions in bad times — and why he matters so much today

Abstract. We produce updated rankings of economics journals based on established and new methodologies, and use these rankings to document the spectacular

Learn how to identify, report, and manage Asian hornet nests in France. Get expert advice on prevention, control measures, and protecting

Stolpersteine erinnern an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. Im sächsischen Heidenau sollen laut einem Beschluss des Stadtrats keine neuen mehr verlegt werden. Bundesbildungsministerin Prien spricht v...

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in r…

Good guys may have won in case against Man City but losing everything in resulting reputational dumpster fire means there is very little to celebrate

Or the Ottoman Election that Never was

PEN America today announced the selection of award-winning novelist, essayist, and professor Phil Klay to serve as its president and chair of the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old writers organiza...

Jusqu’ici, l’usage de l’intelligence artificielle générative était « vivement déconseillé » sur Wikipédia en français pour l’écriture d’articles. Elle emboîte désormais le pas à Wikipédia en anglais, qui l’interdit depuis mars.

The country’s Psychological Defence Agency chief told POLITICO that platforms like X, TikTok and Facebook need to do more to combat Russia’s lie machine.

Economic history & related topics: The man who woke up eager, and the discipline of working as hard as you can to get the numbers right...

Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.

Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy

Despite reporting near-record profits, the Irish airline’s move to downsize has puzzled observers

(Summer 2026) - Most empirical economists have encountered the warning that instrumental variables can be "weak," but the underlying issues—what makes an instrument weak, why weakness distorts inferen...

Two leading publishers in economics now use Refine's AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

Publicly, soccer’s global governing body criticized a breakaway European Super League. Privately, it had held talks for months with the founders about endorsing the competition.

* Document shows Fifa staff were involved in project * Fifa was prepared to sideline member associations Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League” in 2021, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football. The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding and outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that later caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing plans to cut back the number of international windows and outlines how global football’s governing body would have been given special governance and political rights with a “golden share”. Continue reading...

Support is flooding away from the Fifa president, who will likely be asked to resign at emergency council meeting and is scrambling to establish base of backers