Behind Trump’s private equity–style bust-out of the Kennedy Center, a pack of billionaires and MAGA grifters have planned bigger heists, from Hollywood to Western Sahara.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A VA Medical Center Meltdown
Persistent maintenance and staffing issues at a D.C.-based center reveal bigger problems with the VA health system.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Who Is Running America’s 250th Anniversary?
The private-private partnership behind the semiquincentennial celebrations.
Posted inWorking in America
Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard—a Year Later, Unemployment Is Up
Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class.
Posted inPolitics
Competition for Jeff Bezos’s Shabby Washington Post
Robert Allbritton, who founded and then sold Politico, is launching a kind of rival to the Post.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘A Foreclosing of Options’: Racial Health Inequality in Washington, D.C.
Princeton’s Sanyu Mojola examines the public-health issues confronting America’s capital city.
Posted inTAP
Do L.A. and D.C. Have Their Own Mamdanis?
Two somewhat socialist mayoral candidates are working to see that they do.
Posted inPolitics
The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly
Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’