1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (120+ words) Cabinet members were rewarded points and praise for appearing in congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections. Read: The YOLO presidency Read: Trump plans to buy midterm ads about his own record Perhaps emboldened by his previous campaign-trail appearance…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (130+ words) He was ready for life after the Smithsonian. Protecting the institution had taken a toll. Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American…...

5+ day, 9+ min ago   (234+ words) The Smithsonian secretary protected an American institution from more than Donald Trump. Bunch, 73, would likely have chosen to retire earlier if not for his sense of duty—his conviction (which few dispute) that he was the best person to guide…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (107+ words) The Atlantic After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (76+ words) The Atlantic A renewed threat underscores the museum complex’s isolation—and the limits of Trump’s pressure campaign. The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of Interior is channeling “you can’t…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (138+ words) A new plan to lower prices is causing a rift in his own party. Three hundred thousand metric tons of ground beef are on their way to the United States. There’s no easy way to visualize 300,000 metric tons of anything…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (82+ words) The Atlantic Officers under investigation can no longer return quickly to the streets. Read: The secretary of homeland Read: ‘Maybe DHS was a bad idea’ Fleischaker, now an immigration-policy adviser at the Hispanic-advocacy group UnidosUS, said Trump officials have conveyed…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1398+ words) The tiny Gulf state is learning that the U.S. president doesn’t always keep his end of the deal. Donald Trump really wanted the plane. The Qataris had flown the $400 million Boeing 747 to West Palm Beach just after he returned to the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (313+ words) Most of this summer’s Freedom 250 events glorified the president. This one was just a race. The good vibes began when I spotted the driver Sting Ray Robb’s maintenance truck, decorated with the ridiculously wholesome image of seven puppies climbing on…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (143+ words) The president’s first administration was a boon for satirists. Today, many of them are sick of the shtick. It was disorienting, then, to hear Baldwin declare, when I spoke with him earlier this summer, that this sort of comedy has…...