Trump’s Smithsonian review is long overdue

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August 20, 2025

Trump’s Smithsonian review is long overdue

The White House last week informed Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, that it’s putting the museums under review — in other words, adult supervision. The news came in a letter that amounted to a major front in the Trump administration’s war to retake the culture. As I wrote in an X post […]

Trump’s ‘shiny object syndrome’ could derail industrial policy

President Donald Trump is known to be fond of shiny objects. On Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the Oval Office, Apple CEO Tim Cook sought to sway Trump against tariffing his company’s imports with a gold and glass plaque inscribed just for him. Impressed by the gift as Trump clearly was, a more consequential shiny object […]

Private contractors can solve ICE detention shortfall

The United States is facing a stark challenge as we speak: It does not have enough detention capacity to uphold its immigration laws, safeguard its communities, or ensure due process. Despite the increasing complexity of border security and interior enforcement, Congress has still not authorized the necessary funding to meet the scale of demand, let […]

Motherhood should make more women Republicans

Whitney Cummings, known for acting, podcasting, and standup, was recently on Bill Maher’s show where she joked that she was anti-animals now. If you know Cummings’s story at all, you would know she is quite active in rehousing needy animals and adopting a ton of pets and convincing her famous friends, like Dr. Andrew Huberman, […]

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