President Donald Trump reportedly wants to seize the Smithsonian Institution, one of America’s most prestigious collection of museums, and to use them to whitewash the United States’ history on issues like slavery.“When President Trump summoned Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institut…
A conservative commentator argued that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, instead of seeming all-powerful, are instead appearing to the world as “impotent.”“The state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is a sort of moron-populist version of Chernobyl,” wrote The Dispatch’s Nick Catog…
When President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, much of the political world was shocked — but a new study reveals one forecasting framework that anticipated that outcome.“Many voters rely on prospective voting, a process of evaluating candidates based on antic…
President Donald Trump has touted his Trump Accounts as a great investment vehicle to help young people build up savings, but one financial reporter argues that they are not living up to his promise.“My 1-year-old son qualifies for a Trump Account, and I’ve opened it to claim the $1,000 government d…
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is in charge of a MAGA non-profit staffed with Trump loyalists — but apparently they are secretly at each other’s throats.“Since taking over the storied conservative group America’s Future in 2021, retired general Michael Flynn has turned it …
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the Immigration Council and a former immigration lawyer, shared a job listing with the Justice Department, which could indicate the future operations of President Donald Trump’s administration in Texas. “DOJ is indeed hiring attorneys whose primary job will b…
In recent months, President Donald Trump’s endeavor to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has taken on an episodic quality as the project has raised controversy and encountered mounting problems. Now, a new odorous issue has been reported.“As they drain it,” noted Joe Flood, “the Reflecting …
President Donald Trump has threatened a decade in jail for the people who supposedly vandalized Washington DC institutions like the Reflecting Pool — yet his own Justice Department’s recent results poke a giant hole in that claim.“On Monday, one might have expected a stiff punishment when Washington…
CNN on Monday played a supercut of some of President Donald Trump’s big promises about the Reflecting Pool as a panel of analysts ridiculed the president’s results.Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday morning: “Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only …
Dozens of federal judges — including 11 appointed by President Donald Trump over the course of his two terms — have been unable to hide their “disdain” for the administration’s attacks on the judiciary. This is according to a new analysis by CNN, which found 77 rulings in which federal judges “launc…