Trump wants Americans to unlearn what they know about the history and legacy of enslavement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a sense of comfort contained in the most reductive and sanitized stories about the US — the bliss of ignorance. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (Gift Article)This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.www.nytimes.com