The president has reduced the esteemed arts space to a tawdry soap opera. Chicken Little made quite the mess by shouting that the sky was falling when it wasn’t. (Fake news.) TACO Trump, meanwhile, is causing a similar scene...
It was not par for the course. Word started to spread when golfers in D.C. noticed trees being taken down at a beloved public golf course, East Potomac Golf Links—especially a distinctive and much admired cherry tree on the...
What will SCOTUS do—and will they interrupt their summer vacation to do it? Well, it should only need be a quick break from the beach, or whatever megadonor’s mansion they’re holed up at: The court should of course decline...
Another D.C. institution in the culture war crosshairs. The Smithsonian has been a target of the Trump administration for over a year now, since an executive order in March 2025 put Vice President JD Vance in charge of “Restoring...
For the record, I agree with Vice President Vance: If the right-wing media empire that exists today had been in place in the seventies, President Nixon would have survived Watergate. What the president and his cronies are now so...
Kermit the Frog said it best: It’s not easy being green. And now the Reflecting Pool, sickly green with algae, is D.C.’s top tourist attraction, a metaphor for what Trump has done to curdle his presidency. Another top stop...
D.C. Judge Christopher Cooper’s ruling—that Congress created the Kennedy Center and only Congress can authorize what comes next for the now nearly-shuttered building was a plot twist truly worthy of the theater after months of Trumpian showboating and intrigue...
Grift and Graft, the twin pillars of Trump’s presidency, are the basis of his latest and most daring ploy—awarding himself a $1.776 billion slush fund of taxpayer money to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary, and distributing the money with...
On a recent visit to my doctor’s office, I was asked the routine questions about whether I had any flu symptoms or had traveled out of the country. Then there was this: Had I noticed any swelling in my...
It started with a simple request, inasmuch as a simple request can upend constitutional principles and electoral freedoms across the country: President Trump demanding five more GOP-drawn districts in Texas. In response, two blue states, California and Virginia, redrew...