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  • Waltz’s Trump Era Exit: Loyalty, Loomer, and Lessons Learned


    Waltz’s Trump Era Exit: Loyalty, Loomer, and Lessons Learned

    Waltz’s Trump Era Exit: Loyalty, Loomer, and Lessons Learned

    Mike Waltz's short stint as Trump's advisor ended amid loyalty tests and Oval Office dramas with Loomer. A story of shifting alliances, Ukraine stances and ultimately, a Trump-style ouster. #Trump #Waltz #Politics


    Trump’s Dealmaking Struggles: Tariffs, Russia, and Economic Concerns

    Trump’s Dealmaking Struggles: Tariffs, Russia, and Economic Concerns

    Trump faces dealmaking challenges amid tariff disputes, Russia relations, and economic concerns. Dimon criticizes Trump's policies. Trump struggles to deliver promised deals, facing criticism and policy reversals.


    Harvard vs. Trump: DEI, Pluralism, and Academic Freedom

    Harvard vs. Trump: DEI, Pluralism, and Academic Freedom

    Harvard resists Trump's threats over DEI. Colleges shift to pluralism amid political stress. Funding frozen. The debate: Academic freedom vs. political control and culture war.


    What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

    What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

    Viktor Shvets, a global-market strategist at Macquarie Capital, said, on Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast, “I keep asking myself, ‘What is this Administration trying to do?’ ” Was the objective to reindustrialize the United States, or to raise revenue to help pay for tax cuts to the rich, or to change the global flow of funds?


    Trump administration sued by 21 states’ attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services

    Trump administration sued by 21 states’ attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services

    A coalition of 21 state attorneys general is suing the administration of US President Donald Trump for attempting to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and several other agencies through executive orders and actions that, the group says in its legal filing, "are illegal several times over".


    Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer

    Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer

    In times past, one of my favourite ways to switch off was to go through online auction catalogues in pursuit of mis-catalogued paintings (or “sleepers” as the art trade calls them).


    Trump signs executive order to ‘eliminate’ agency that funds museums and libraries

    Trump signs executive order to ‘eliminate’ agency that funds museums and libraries

    This decision undermines access to the arts, disproportionately harming marginalised groups and stifling diverse expression,” Julie TrĂ©bault, the executive director of Artists at Risk Connection, said in a statement.


    We’d Never Had a King Until This Week

    We’d Never Had a King Until This Week

    I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and telling them the story of the April morning in 1775 when brave townspeople made their stand against the British and their king in the first fighting of the Revolution.


    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.


    How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle?

    How Much of the Government Can Donald Trump Dismantle?

    In 2018, an anonymous Op-Ed in the New York Times, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” described internal efforts to curb the President’s impulses, and became a book the following year, “A Warning.” The author eventually revealed himself as Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.


    Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

    Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

    During Trump’s Presidency, she didn’t speak publicly very often—“There is absolutely no question that she has been quieter than any modern First Lady we’ve known,” the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan, who has written a biography of Melania, said, in 2020—and even when she did make a rare address, such as the speech she gave at the 2016 Republican National Convention, some of her words were revealed to have been lifted from Michelle Obama.


    The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

    The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

    Her suggestion that voters pay attention to his rallies, and note how many attendees left early “out of exhaustion and boredom,” prompted the Republican to inveigh against the nonexistent pet-eating migrants; and a well-timed reminder that Trump had inherited a large fortune, during an exchange about Harris’s recent move to the center, distracted him from what otherwise might have been an effective attack on her flip-flopping.