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Bugonia” is surprisingly subdued for a movie about alien conspiracy theories.

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Even from the back, Patti Smith was unmistakably Patti Smith. Standing on a downtown-Manhattan sidewalk on a late-summer ...

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The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.

Higher education can—and should—fight the Trump administration, but the age of lavish government support is coming to a close.

Neil Flanagan, an architect and a public historian in Washington, D.C., is a humanities scholar in residence at the Heurich House Museum. He is writing a book about how the founders of American urban ...