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Trump’s Name Won’t Be Coming Off the Kennedy Center Just Yet
Trump claimed the center is 'rusted' and 'bug infested' Burgum said in the CNN interview that the refurbishment launched by Trump was badly needed, claiming that “the structural integrity of the building, the deterioration issues with…
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Just What Does “American” Architecture Look Like In 2026?
A new book makes the case that when it comes to evolving forms and styles in American architecture, a new generation of firms is drawing inspiration from not just place and local architectural heritage, but the place a building like the…
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The Machines Are Talking to Each Other
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The machines are mostly talking to each other now, and we’re the ones waiting for a reply. The Atlantic frames the quiet crisis well: as the world automates around us, agency leaks out of human hands one…
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How Alice Walton Culturally Transformed A Corner Of Arkansas
It’s impossible to miss the scope of transformation that’s happened in Bentonville, population 63,000. – Fast Company
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AI Is Causing a Crisis of Agency
Back in the web-traffic-obsessed days of 2018, at a time of dawning awareness of how easily audiences online could be manipulated and spoofed by bots, the writer Max Read argued that the internet had crossed a threshold known as “the…
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The Trump Administration Is Done With Social Science
In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of the scientist” that would fund…
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A Dancer Helping To Redefine What A Ballet Body Is
Ballet has a reputation for upholding rigid body standards. In recent years, though, the art form has been rethinking its relationship to diversity in areas like race and body type. – The New York Times
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What We Need To Do To Get America Reading Again
Teaching people to read and building a world where they can do so are different problems. Throwing our phones in the lake can’t bring about that world, but designing the conditions for reading will. – The New York Times
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Challenges Arise as Top Critics Retire
When Christopher Knight retired as the art critic at the Los Angeles Times at the end of 2025, he was the last of, arguably, the three most influential US critics of the postmodern (i.e., post-1975) era to depart their roles. Roberta…
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As streaming wars wear on, Emmy success could give Peacock and Paramount+ a boost
(Photo illustration by Lesley Busby / For The Times; photos from Television Academy; Unsplash PC: Santiago Avila Caro)Every Emmy season, a battle rages over which network or streamer earns the most nominations. It’s so competitive that…
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