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Four years ago I chided Poland and its leaders for whitewashing its history. It got the Sun-Times sued. Now the United States ...
Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, argued you "can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress" during a ...
President Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding that Smithsonian Institution museums undergo an overhaul to present a fake ...
Tony Dokoupil agrees with President Donald Trump that the Smithsonian museums’ exhibits should be revamped.
President Donald Trump has been moving to take greater control over the Smithsonian Institution and said earlier this week that the organization focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.” ...
The Washington Post on Wednesday revealed $2.4 million in planned ICE expenditures—the bulk of which will go toward 25 Chevrolet Tahoes, with about $174,000 covering the custom-wrapping of Tahoes, ...
Vice President JD Vance is so good at saying exactly what Moscow wants him to say that he’s earned a starring role in state propaganda. During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Wednesday ...
Wokeism has had a hell of a run. It feels like only yesterday (actually it was 1938) that blues singer Lead Belly first used “stay woke” in a song about the Scottsboro Boys (nine Black teenagers ...
Some of President Donald Trump’s ill-advised actions would be more shocking if there weren’t so many of them. But how much consternation can you expend over Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the B ...
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) blasted Trump’s comment as “outrageous and un-American” and further argued, “If Trump thinks slavery wasn’t bad, he clearly needs to spend more time in a museum.” Media ...
What Trump is doing looks like a pretty naked attempt at sanitising history in order to maximise his own power.’ If Trump’s attempts to change how the Smithsonian retells the story of America, he ...