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The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian (opens the original)
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Donald Trump has not forgotten his midsummer promise to publicly shame the Smithsonian. The Trump administration is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias, according to a letter I obtained sent by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. The September 3 letter, which Burgum sent to Senator Jeff Merkley, says that the National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000. Mer
Why Does Donald Trump Hate This Sculpture? (opens the original)
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The sculpture that Donald Trump wants removed from the National Mall has a reputation even among its admirers for being a bit inscrutable. Dedicated in 1967 at what is now the National Museum of American History, José de Rivera’s Infinity looks, fittingly, like an infinity symbol with an extra twist. (A bow? A pretzel?) By pairing the technical prowess required to create smooth, curved metal with the delicate spinning of a music box, the slow-turning work seems to take a different form each time
Why Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian (opens the original)
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This story was updated at 6:12 p.m. on September 8, 2026. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to retire from the institution at the end of this year, bringing to a close a tenure marked by unprecedented pressure on the museum complex from a White House keen on controlling how to tell the nation’s history. After a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed the departure to The Atlantic, Bunch addressed Smithsonian employees at a town hall this afternoon, telling them, “I may be going a
The White House Wants to Make the Smithsonian a Pariah (opens the original)
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The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of the Interior is channeling “you can’t sit with us” energy as it tries to make the world’s largest museum complex a pariah in Washington. In a newly public August 28 letter from the department to the Smithsonian board of regents, Trump-administration officials write that executive departments and agencies “cannot in good conscience continue to support the Smithsonian under
A Freedom 250 Event That Actually Worked (opens the original)
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An interest in the thrills of car racing is not what drove me to spend my Sunday afternoon at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the latest of the spectacles that Donald Trump has presided over during the United States’ big birthday celebrations all summer. I was there yesterday because I was worried about art. The event involved 25 cars zipping around a number of D.C.’s museums and historic buildings at worryingly high speeds—147 times. Preservationists and conservators had raised concerns ahead of th
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