#trump-administration

#trump-administration

On May 2, 2025, arts and cultural organizations across the country received notifications that grants and funding promised by the National Endowment for the Arts were being rescinded. This was part of a larger initiative by the Trump Administration to dismantle not just the NEA, but also other arts advocacy programs including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

The advisers operate within what theologians call the dispensationalist tradition - a strain of evangelical theology that reads global events as markers on a prophetic timeline.

One of the things that I'm hoping to do a better job on is getting people from the private sector-who've been in the private sector their whole career-who also spend a couple years in government at some point in their career, and learn something.

Kordia was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in.

The White House is seeking a 10 percent cut to nondefense spending, proposing a reduction of $73 billion from federal programs outside the military, targeting environmental initiatives.

The Atlantic report details financial and political activity involving Duffy, a former Republican congressman representing Wisconsin, that ethics experts say blurs the line between public office and political activity.

The Trump administration's entire argument hinges on a tendentious two-step, one that the majority of justices do not seem to be buying. It's important to unpack the absurdity of the semantic case the administration is making to unlock why this effort to rewire all of American society is almost certain to fail.