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As house prices plateau, the gap between the cost of buying and renting is narrowing in dozens of suburbs Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast High rents and falling property prices have opened a rare window for Australian tenants to become homeowners, with mortgage repayments cheaper than rent in dozens of suburbs. Guardian Australia’s analysis of Cotality data shows that median rents in inner-city Melbourne, suburban Canberra and Darwin are now nearly

The Trump administration returns to classic form.

The best-selling genre is more than just smut.

Could Charleston send a Democrat to Congress?

When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

A handful of multibillionaires have some terrifying plans.

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Trump is fine with a military execution by firing squad, just not with putting it on YouTube

I eagerly await your response.

The memory shortage is coming for classrooms.

A live taping with Helen Lewis and Sophie Gilbert about the evolution of masculinism

The alternative to working from home is often logging on in a sea of mostly empty cubicles.

They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.

Why Buffalo Bills fans are convinced this is finally their year

The best explanation is the least complicated one.

Autumn, the best season, has arrived once again—the season of harvests, festivals, migrations, and, of course, spectacular fall colors. Collected here are early images from this year.

Space is hard, and expensive. The U.S. is relying on some of its wealthiest individuals to help it get there.

From John Milton to Prince, great thinkers and artists have argued that you can’t have true romance without a meeting of the minds.

Americans need to party more. A new class of IRL influencers is ready to help.

Janet Malcolm policed the literary ruses of others, but wasn’t afraid to deploy them herself.

Musk vs. Bezos

American retirees have a lot of money saved—and they don’t want to touch it.

He’s right to complain that a few provocative quotes do not capture his worldview.

What they do well is fight. Escalation against Saudi Arabia is assured.

The Trump administration seems to believe that the performance of cruel power is what makes a nation great.

A poem

How Sarah J. Maas became the queen of romantasy

A new documentary lays bare the human failings of Elon Musk—and the faith people put in him anyway.

The best source of protein is hiding in plain sight.

The evolution of a TV host turned YouTube polemicist

The time someone takes to reply may say little about your relationship.

Fewer and fewer Americans are kicking off their weekends with friends.

In my mid-20s, I was flailing. Then I memorized a baffling poem and learned to stop looking so hard.

Ultimately, the debate is a battle for power over Australians’ savings pool of $4.8tn dating back to the scheme’s inception Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context Should you be able to take money out of your super to pay for housing? One Nation has recently suggested you should. Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has also revived the idea. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, tells us the Coalition and One Nation are “coming after super” and want to “vandalise”

A short story

What the children of philanderers know

The 2004 reality show told women that beauty was worth going to extreme measures for. The messaging of 2026 is much more duplicitous.

Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.

The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature makes ancient texts feel tantalizingly new.

In 1987, two writers predicted a path to energy independence from the Middle East. What they didn’t anticipate was what the U.S. would do to get there.