As the Justice Department fights to place Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, the record shows that statutory memorials must be protected from executive overreach.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Whistleblowers reveal leadership hoarded millions in repair funds and faked safety crises, echoing the deadly neglect seen in the Flint Water Crisis.
By Maya Ellison ·
Thousands protested in Washington as Donald Trump forced the closure of the Kennedy Center, exposing how political vanity spends down shared cultural capital.
By Elena Rossi ·
By seizing the Kennedy Center and driving artists away, Donald Trump treats a shared national memorial as personal property, spending down a public trust that only citizens and courts can defend.
By Elena Rossi ·
After threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center for lack of recognition, Donald Trump faces a public revolt that proves shared culture cannot be owned by one man.
By Elena Rossi ·
On Friday evening, thousands of Washingtonians formed a human chain around the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The image is as stark as it is predictable: thousands of people forming a human chain, a fragile ring of flesh and bone attempting to shield a monument of art from the appetite of a brand.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The law does not care for the aesthetics of a building, but it cares deeply for the authority that governs it. When U.S.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The image is as stark as a courtroom sketch: President Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One, studying a placard that appears to read “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” To some, it is…
By Caroline Ashford ·
An elevated tarp currently hangs over the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, obscuring the name of a fallen president.
By Elena Rossi ·
In my father’s day, if a man wanted to put his name on something he didn't own, he didn't do it by trying to buy the town's goodwill; he did it by becoming the only buyer in the…
By Ruth Behrens ·
When a ceiling collapses during a rainstorm, it’s usually a sign that something has been neglected for a long time. But at the John F.
By Alma Cordero ·
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is currently attempting to solve a structural engineering problem with a marketing campaign.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
There is a particular kind of desperation that makes the dignified act of stewardship look like a fire sale. We are seeing it now in Washington, where the John F.
By Elena Rossi ·