The Kennedy Center is so named per Public Law 88-260 (1964). Trump can’t rename it nor can the board rename it without congressional action. (Thanks @davidgura)

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Suggestion: Instead of airing Felon’s Epstein files distraction, how about airing Rob Reiner’s “The American President”?

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o... Jamelle Bouie

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... Anne Applebaum

Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u... ~ Peter Baker

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Dan Merica

California Hires Former C.D.C. Officials Who Criticized Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

A Free World Needs a Strong America www.nytimes.com/interactive/... NY Times Editorial Board

Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends www.nytimes.com/interactive/... NY Times Editorial Board

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...

Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’ The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Carol Leonnig: NEWWW -- White House is moving to confirm Lindsey Halligan as U.S. Attorney in wake of indictments being dismissed me and @lawofruby www.ms.now/news/trump-h...

U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n... ~ amazing what a fake trophy to Trump gets you…

The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.

Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u... David Sanger

Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o... Michelle Goldberg

www.propublica.org/article/trum... ~ imagine that

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Max Boot

Anne Applebaum: “Witkoff and Kushner … are using the tools of the American state in a manner that happens to benefit their friends and business partners, even while they do terrible damage to American allies, American alliances, and America’s reputation.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Trump Wants Complete Control. Will the Supreme Court Hand It to Him? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o... Kate Shaw

How to Help the People Around You www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o... Jamelle Bouie

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... “Trump sees everything as a deal, and for Putin, any deal is a revelation of weakness. Trump is a creature of the Manhattan-real-estate world; Putin grew up amid the rubble of postwar Leningrad. Those Soviet courtyards formed him” Andrew Ryvkin

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy document has the intellectual incoherence “of the angry autodidact, the anti-vaxxer activist, and the anti-Biden conspiracy theorist,” @EliotACohen argues, but it is still revelatory: ~ Eliot Cohen

The Supreme Court Is Failing at Its Most Important Job www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/o... NY Times Editorial Board

The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u... Adam Liptak

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition www.newyorker.com/news/letter-... Susan Glasser

This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o... Amanda Frost

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

www.politico.com/news/2025/12... Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney

www.ms.now/news/fbi-arr... Ken Dilanian & Carol Leonnig

Felon’s tariffs continued: I have had an automatic order for a day planner for decades. It’s a Canadian product. This year (2026) it cost $27. Just got an invoice from UPS for $10 for the Trump tariff. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤬🤬🤬

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... We’ll see…

Former F.D.A. Commissioners Sound Alarm on Plan to Change Vaccine Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u... Nancy Mace has told people she is so frustrated with Johnson and sick of the way he has run the House — particularly how women are treated there — that she is planning to huddle with MTG next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early. ~ Annie Karni

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report. Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.