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El Salvador: The rise of the ‘world’s coolest dictator’
Not long ago, the tiny nation of El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world. Now, it has the highest incarceration rate. President Nayib Bu…
2 years, 9 months ago
Can Lizzo survive a harassment lawsuit?
Pop superstar Lizzo has said a lawsuit with claims of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment are ‘false’. Three former dancers have brought…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why so many MPs are calling it quits
With an election just around the corner, politicians are quitting Westminster in their droves, many of them under 40. Is the job broken – or are they…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why heating our homes with hydrogen could be a pipe dream
In the neighbourhood of Whitby in Cheshire, residents had to grapple with a question that many more of us will have to ask in the coming years: how s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Niger's latest coup opens a door for Putin in Africa
Niger, in west Africa, has suffered its fifth coup in just over six decades of independence. This one could have repercussions far beyond its borders…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Gen Z are giving up booze
Younger people are turning away from alcohol, with Gen Z most likely to be teetotal – including Spider-Man actor Tom Holland. Millennials, too, are d…
2 years, 9 months ago
The art of the political lunch, with Tim Shipman
This Sunday we're bringing you an extra episode from another Times podcast – the Red Box politics podcast with Matt Chorley.
Very few people have had …
2 years, 9 months ago
Trump: The charges for conspiring to overturn the election
This week, for the third time in only a few months, former president Donald Trump was indicted, pleading 'not guilty' to four federal charges that ar…
2 years, 9 months ago
The unsolved murder of a private detective and decades of police corruption
Last month, it’s understood that London’s Metropolitan Police agreed a record £2million settlement after admitting that a 35-year long murder investi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Andrew Malkinson: One of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice
Last week, Andrew Malkinson’s 2004 conviction for rape was quashed at the Court of Appeal after new DNA evidence implicated another man in the crime.…
2 years, 9 months ago