The gutting of the East Wing of the White House and our national preoccupation with “renovation.” Our preoccupation with renovations goes beyond architecture.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times ...

Indiana University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. President Barack Obama famously chided Donald Trump in April 2011 during the annual White House correspondents’ dinner. The ...

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Demolition crews have begun tearing down the East Wing of the White House, clearing ground for a 90,000-square foot ballroom in the biggest White House expansion in more than 70 years. President ...

In late October 2025, as Republican U.S. President Donald Trump faced backlash for demolishing part of the White House to build a multimillion-dollar ballroom, some social media users claimed a $376 ...

President Trump’s construction of a grand ballroom attached to the White House — starting with the demolition of part of the East Wing this week — will not be the first time a president has left a ...

While future guests of the White House will be having a ball in its forthcoming ballroom, for which demolition began on Monday, the massive renovation isn’t the first of its scale at 1600 Pennsylvania ...

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Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has wasted no time in reshaping the look and feel of the White House and, now, the National Mall. This week, Trump unveiled a new monument dubbed the ...

“The heart of the house, as cliché as it sounds, is 100 percent the kitchen,” Chris Mitchell says of the rear-parlor-turned-canteen of the historic Brooklyn townhouse he shares with his wife, Oprah ...