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Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the Biden Administration chose Calibri for their digital communications: to include more people and make life just a wee bit easier for the disabled. And who in their right mind could […]

The post Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

The Department of War has cracked the code on making the perfect press corps by welcoming in only its biggest cheerleaders.

The post The Brand-New Pentagon Press Corps Is Gaga for Hegseth appeared first on The Intercept.

Upstarts are taking on establishment politics, companies turn against Trump’s tariffs, underage workers get protections, and the phone company dials up pharma payback.

Every era of Doctor Who could have an alternate Japanese Light Novel title that explains the series' premise in a hilarious, on-the-nose way.

I'm pleased to announce that my new book Trans Lives: Social Realities across the Globe, will be released in early February 2026. Here is a link to the publisher's website: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=trans-lives--9781509572038
The title points to three themes. First, it's real lives that are at stake in current debates.

Researchers recorded the nocturnal insects sipping from the massive mammal’s ducts for the first time

The post Watch a Moth Drink Moose Tears appeared first on Nautilus.

Polar bears in a warmer region of Greenland have shown some surprising genetic changes that may help them adapt

The post A Warming Arctic May Be Changing Polar Bears’ DNA appeared first on Nautilus.

Most of us overestimate how hooked we are

The post You’re Probably Not Addicted to Social Media appeared first on Nautilus.

Here's a sneak peek at the BBC's The War Between the Land and the Sea S01E03: "The Deep," with Kate Lethbridge Stewart feeling the pressure.

Mosasaur teeth discovered in North Dakota tell a surprising story

The post Fearsome Marine Predators Prowled Ancient Rivers, Too appeared first on Nautilus.

The pilot program, added to the military budget behind closed doors, upends an 80-year precedent against covering contractors’ interest payments.

The post Lawmakers Pave the Way to Billions in Handouts for Weapons Makers That the Pentagon Itself Opposed appeared first on The Intercept.

A new, non-invasive method to track amphibian hormones may reveal how the creatures weather rising threats in the wild

The post This Hole Punch-Sized Patch Could Help Save Frogs appeared first on Nautilus.

The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.

The post White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List appeared first on The Intercept.

Sixty years ago, A Charlie Brown Christmas made its debut on CBS. Today, as part of CBS’s new initiative to modernize content, CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss updates this Christmas classic.

Charlie Brown and Linus lean on a brick wall. Snowflakes fall around them.

CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with me. I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel.

LINUS: Charlie Brown, you are the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy is right. Maybe it is because of woke.

Charlie Brown sits in front of Lucy’s psychiatric booth.

CHARLIE BROWN: I feel depressed. I know I should be happy, but I’m not.

Every writer I’ve ever talked to knows that the best writing is the easiest. You get in the flow and the words spill out. You can barely keep up, and it feels like transcription. It’s a great feeling, too, one of the best in the world. This is why there were and are so many […]

Test your knowledge of Trump’s AI executive order, Google’s secret lawmaker junket, and other issues that really matter.

The European Union is far stronger and more united than those inside the Trumpian echo chamber have fooled themselves into believing, argues Alexandra Hall Hall

A study notes marked lifespan increases in mammals that have been castrated or kept on contraception

The post Is the Secret to Long Life Freedom From Procreation? appeared first on Nautilus.

Universal Credit Jobs (UCJ) is the simplest credible version of a Job Guarantee that can be delivered in the United Kingdom

Faced with economic theory’s apparent inability to address real economic and financial problems, economists retreat into the wonderful world of models. Instead of constructing theories based on empirical facts, they abandon the real world and prove things about imagined ones. If the goal is knowledge about the real world, the value of these exercises is, […]