Thanks to a technicality of British parliamentary procedure, Boris Johnson has managed to avert an embarrassing showdown with lawmakers from his own party over the UK government’s budget for foreign aid. But Parliament was expected to vent on the issue on Tuesday, and plenty of other divisions are emerging within the government and the Conservatives on funding priorities. While Johnson ...

Labelling misinformation online is doing more harm than good. The possibility that Covid-19 came from a lab accident is just the latest example. Social media companies tried to suppress any discussion of it for months. But why? There’s no strong evidence against it, and evidence for other theories is still inconclusive. Pathogens have escaped from labs many times, and people ...

If still-incomplete returns are correct, a straw-hat-wearing, giant-pencil-carrying candidate for a Marxist party has just narrowly won Peru’s presidential election. It’s a razor-thin margin that points to deep rifts and spells lasting instability for a country that is not only the No. 2 copper producer today, but has also been seen — until now — as a key source of ...