Updated at 4:10 p.m. ET on January 4, 2024.
When the conservative authors Christopher Rufo and Christopher Brunet accused Harvard’s Claudine Gay last month of having committed plagiarism in her dissertation, they were clearly motivated by a culture-war opportunity. Gay, the school’s first Black president—and, for some critics, an avatar of the identity-politics bureaucracy on college campuses—had just flubbed testimony before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus. She was already under pressure to resign. Evidence of scholarly misconduct was just
Despite a patchy few months of weather in Britain, summer 2023 has been the hottest on record globally, according to the EU’s Copernicus climate service.
Air temperatures this summer were 1.18°F (0.66°C) above average, hitting a global average of 62.18°F (16.77°C) – the highest since records began in 1940.
Copernicus also announced that last month was the warmest August on record globally, and warmer than all other months except July 2023.
This summer has seen extreme weather events such
LONDON — Rishi Sunak is the ruling U.K. Conservatives’ third leader inside a year. But already, Tory MPs are thinking about who comes next.
A drubbing for the Tories in local elections across England earlier this month, and a stubbornly high poll lead for the opposition Labour Party, has left Tory MPs mulling the prospect of a general election defeat next year — and the likelihood of yet another bloody leadership contest in the aftermath.
Sunak, who recently marked his
