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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.

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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.