Why must every president overplay his hand?” Christopher J. Scalia wrote on X the other day. Scalia, the son of the famed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and hardly a ...

President Donald Trump dismissed half the appointed trustees of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board on ...

For the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is ...

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After mostly steering clear of the national cultural center during his first term, Trump has moved quickly to take control as ...

President Trump takes over Kennedy Center, vowing to end 'woke' culture. Changes 18 board members, sparking debate on artistic expression and national identity.

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It’s another signal of how an authoritarian leader can use state power to defeat the opposition,” one democracy watchdog ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was named for her slain husband. President Dwight Eisenhower first envisioned the cultural center, which sits on the east bank of the Potomac River ...

"It is a great honor to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!" Trump said.