James S. Russell

A speed walk through the White House’s architectural history shows just how disruptive this project actually is but also how it is a building block in the authoritarian edifice Trump and the radical-right elite is creating to turn his increasingly chaotic utterances into a new era of colonialist empire.

A strange new choreography seen in countless videos has riveted eyeballs around the world as ostentatiously armed and masked federal immigration agents break down doors or haul people out...

The house does not belong to him, but to the American people and such a substantial, irreversible alteration requires the approval.

Trump has embarked on the most significant alteration to the White House since its original completion early in the 19th century. He proposes to add a 90,000 square foot addition to replace the East Wing which was conceived by Thomas Jefferson but largely completed in 1902 for Teddy Roosevelt.

The country needs to do better than return to a past that wasted too many billions and ruined too many lives to too little effect.

With widespread unhappiness with government institutions, voters are listening to candidate promises to blow up business as usual.

These are charities that formed to engage the scandalous scale of today’s hunger problem. Working with insightful architects, both organizations have been able to build transformative facilities.

Before the election Donald Trump promised to fix inflation, which included big voter concern about the cost of housing. For all the shock and awe, the chaos and the...

In its combination of quiet boldness, reticence when called for, and lack of self-consciousness, the term “masterpiece” does not seem to apply. It’s pretty satisfying though, and worth celebrating.

Management was fully responsible for Boeing’s near-death experience, but reviving a diverse, healthy, and innovative industrial sector, while worthy, will not succeed until the profits-only zeitgeist is addressed.