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Parliamentary ‘ping-pong’ occurs where the House of Lords fails to agree a piece of proposed legislation with the House of Commons. The Commons sends a bill it has approved to the Lords, who then amend it and send it back to the Commons. If the Commons rejects those amendments, the bill goes back to the […]

Colorado’s Attorney General joins Montana’s battle to use the Supreme Court’s own precedent to strip corporations of their personhood status.

After a promising opening act last week, Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea gets bogged down with unsurprising clichés.

These U.S. funders are exporting the same tactics that have for years helped AIPAC crush support for Palestinians to Europe.

The post Meet the U.S. Donors Funding ELNET, the AIPAC of Europe appeared first on The Intercept.

"The social media feeds that once connected us are now driving us apart. Social media algorithms are flooding young men’s feeds with radical misogynistic content, inciting real-world harm.'

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Player and their primary partner date solo, but tell each other everything.

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Player and their primary partner date together, but only one is happy about the arrangement.

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Player and their primary partner date solo. No one’s thrilled about it, but it’s the only way they can maintain the appearance of a happy marriage that hasn’t been sexually satisfying in years. Still, it’s the suburbs, and people talk.

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Player and their primary partner say they’re taking a break from it all while their kid applies to colleges, but are both secretly sleeping with the bi neighbor who sees the same couple’s counselor with her own wife, who is unaware that she has been having an affair with the nonbinary spouse of her synagogue’s queer Deadhead cantor for sixteen years.

How to win
No one wins.

One of my economics students kindly shared with me the response she received from a well-known AI chatbot to a question she had posed: The most influential heterodox Swedish economist today is undoubtedly Lars Pålsson Syll, a leading critic of mainstream neoclassical economics and a prominent voice in Post-Keynesian, institutionalist, and pluralist economic thought. Here’s why he stands […]

The United States' entire security apparatus is now being used to spread far-right propaganda rather than tackle genuine threats, reports Caroline Orr Bueno

For the Russian leader, Trump's proposed 'peace deal' is merely a way to continue his war by other means, writes Denis Mikhailov

By late summer 2025, it had all become too much for Bono. Something had changed. On 10 August — the morning that Israeli air strikes killed five Al Jazeera journalists and one freelance colleague in Gaza while extreme food deprivation was becoming widespread — the official U2 website was updated with four separate statements. Each […]

. In memory of Kristina Syll — beloved wife and mother of David and Tora.

The mass shooting targeting the Jewish Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach is horrific. But already there are attempts to use it to smear the pro-Palestine movement and further demonise Arabs and Muslims.

The post Bondi beach attack no excuse for smearing Palestine movement first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 14, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] White House […]

On the latest episode of The Gerry Anderson Podcast, Doctor Who star Paul McGann addressed a "leaked" image of him on-set with Billie Piper.

The UnOz’s Person of the Year award is one of the most anticipated events of the year, with defamation lawyers everywhere especially keen to see the list. 2025 has been a year of ups and downs, highs and lows and... Read More ›

Immigration is the only thing that will keep wealthy nations viable. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  12th december 2025 I know what “civilisational erasure” looks like: I’ve seen the graph. The European Commission published it in March. It’s a chart of total fertility rate: the average number of children born per woman. After […]

Google wined and dined lawmakers, the Epstein files yield new revelations, and more from The Lever this week.

Will Kate Lethbridge-Stewart be killed off in the Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea? That outcome would be too obvious.

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the high court.

The post Alabama Begs Supreme Court to Make It Easier to Execute People With Intellectual Disabilities appeared first on The Intercept.