At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke NYT | Top Stories By: Michael Crowley and Hamed Aleaziz 10 December 2025 at 09:53 Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts. © Tierney L. Cross/The New York TimesSecretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House last month.