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In creating the organization, Congress sought to affirm and acknowledge that a healthy democracy “demands wisdom and vision in its citizens” and that the federal government must give “full value and support” to the humanities “in order to achieve a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better view of the future.”

As the congressional legislation creating the National Endowment for the Humanities articulated, the federal government has a “necessary and appropriate” role “to help create and sustain not only a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry but also the material conditions” facilitating humanistic inquiry.

As shown by the large and growing number of polls, Trump’s approval among the American people across almost every issue, most notably the economy and tariffs and inflation, his gutting of the federal government and defiance of the Constitution and the rule of law, is rapidly falling to levels not seen for an American president in the last 80 years.

The federal government decided not to test the soil of L.A.’s burn areas for hazardous substances.

The federal government decided not to test the soil of L.A.’s burn areas for hazardous substances.