I've lost faith in the rule of law or the effectiveness of guardrails. And when it comes to Confederate monuments and our ...

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation directing the Smithsonian Institution to remove references to “improper ideology ...

The state House of Representatives recently passed legislation in hopes of raising the budget meant to crack down on ...

On a special episode (first released on March 19, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: If you’ve paid attention to Washington politics since the start of the new Trump administration, one name is ...

Languages: English. Veterans are planning to march on Washington DC in order to defend the Constitution and the oath they swore to it. The protest, set to take place on March 14, has been ...

Especially one that puts Philly on the worldwide stage. That’s why he’s raising money to build a national monument in LOVE Park for America’s 250th birthday in 2026. Since 2019, the former mayor and ...

A group of Ukrainian lawmakers has proposed erecting a monument in Kyiv to George Washington, the first president of the United States. A draft resolution for the monument was published on the website ...

The U.S. Department of Education has warned several universities in Washington state that they could lose out on federal funding due to possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act ...

Ullman has whistled all over D.C., including whistling “Yankee Doodle Dandy” outside while on top of the Washington Monument when it was being repaired following the 2011 earthquake.

The level of late-night dread in Washington right now cannot be squashed by all the weighted blankets in the world or drowned out by the most powerful white noise machine. There is no eyeshade or ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock in ...

Jim Sanborn’s inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say they’ve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3. SIGN UP for Plaintext to read the whole thing, and tap Steven's unique ...