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Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia finally lowered interest rates some months after it became clear the economy is slowing and the labour market is getting weaker. The RBA remain fixated on their claims that wages growth is too high. In yesterday’s – Statement by the Monetary Policy Board: Monetary Policy Decision ((August 12, 2025)…

In the past few weeks, the unexpected announcement by ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana of a new left-of-Labour party was received ecstatically by millions of people across Britain who are desperate to support a political force which will opposes Keir Starmer’s support for genocide and austerity. At the time of writing, over 650,000 people have signed […]

I met Anas during an Israeli siege of a hospital. He grew to be my mentor — and my friend.

The post Anas al-Sharif Was My Friend. Here’s Why Israel Feared Him So Much. appeared first on The Intercept.

Plastic pollution is costing the world $1.5 trillion a year in health-related losses

The post Can Humanity Stem the Plastic Tide? appeared first on Nautilus.

Before the president seized control of Washington, D.C.’s police, corporate lobbyists posed as local businesses to drum up panic about local crime.

Interim Opposition leader and practicing numerologist, Sussan Ley, has held a press conference to condemn the PM’s decision to say good morning, claiming the statement was offensive to both the afternoon and evening. ”Mr Albanese needs to stop seeking to... Read More ›

It takes more than good chemistry

The post How to Restore a Rembrandt appeared first on Nautilus.

When a lot of people talk about Rome, they’re thinking of the Empire and when they write about Rome, they’re writing about the decline and fall. But I’ve always been more interested in creation of new things and how they ran when they were running well. To be sure, knowing how a system eventually failed […]

It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point...

During the Pilot TV podcast, Russell T. Davies updated fans on where things stand with Doctor Who and The War Between the Land and the Sea.

“The ability to use the military anywhere, anytime, for any purpose — it’s absolutely unprecedented.”

The post Trump’s Use of Troops for Policing Hasn’t Been Seen Since America Was Ruled by a King appeared first on The Intercept.

“President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police department, an extraordinary assertion of presidential power in the nation’s capital.” —Reuters

A tourist standing to the left on a Metro Center escalator

The line at Call Your Mother on a Sunday morning

The price of one beer at Nats Park

Someone eating a granola bar on the metro

A Virginia driver trying to navigate Chevy Chase Circle

Steak ’n Egg closing

A tourist pronouncing it “DuPONT”

Seeing a movie where a character takes the metro to Georgetown

Overhearing someone say they were flying out of “Reagan”

Illegal immigrants everywhere (spotted lantern flies)

The humidity in August

Realizing the zoo is about to close, but you are all the way at Amazonia with two children and a stroller, and you took the metro here

Retired colonel Chris Romberg says the Government is criminalising peaceful dissent after being arrested under anti-terror laws at Palestine Action demonstration

Unbalanced coverage of migration is twisting the public's perspective, argues Christian Christensen

Trump’s cryptocurrency allies convinced the administration to buck Wall Street and revive a rule giving consumers the right to access their financial data.

The Pittsburgh plant that exploded on Monday had a history of chemical accidents — and the Trump administration made that secret.

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts...

Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.

To make poems rhyme can sometimes be toughas words can seem to be from the same bough,yet each line’s ending sounds different, though,best covered up with a hiccough or cough. Was this upsetting to Byron or Yeats?Dickinson, Wordsworth, Larkin or Keats?Did they see these words as auditory threats?Could they write their lines without caveats? What…

Alex Kingston has joined the new season of Strictly Come Dancing (think of it as River Song appearing on the show as a Doctor Who tie-in).

“President Trump announced that he’s placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and deploying National Guard troops to the nation’s capital.” —CNN

The family and I visited Colonial Williamsburg just last summer. We had a great time. My wife and son loved the basket-weaving workshop, and my daughter was so excited by the reenactors that she barely let them answer a question before peppering them with another one.