Harvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent

The Trump administration’s war on elite universities has forced them to consider whether it’s ever worth dipping into the trust.

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At Kennedy Center, Trump Inherits a Tough Job: Fund-Raising

For the arts institution, which receives only a small portion of its budget from federal funding, the perennial challenge is to raise additional revenue through ticket sales and private donations.

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Trump’s Revenge Now Includes His Takeover of the Kennedy Center

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more country music.

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Trump Says He Will Install Himself as Kennedy Center Chairman

The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.

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Kennedy Center’s Leader to Step Down, Adding to Uncertainty

The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term.

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A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses

Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.

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Who Are the 19 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

The honorees include high-profile figures like Hillary Clinton, the singer Bono, the philanthropist and donor George Soros, and Lionel Messi.

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