This Year’s WHCD Serves Only to Normalize Trump’s First Amendment Dumpster Fire — I Won’t Be a Part of It

This Year’s WHCD Serves Only to Normalize Trump’s First Amendment Dumpster Fire — I Won’t Be a Part of It

Trump's attacks on the free press are a threat to democracy, or so insist many in the press. So why is the WHCA holding a black tied soiree with a red carpet?

WTF? Trump's Press Sec Takes Questions From a Russian Funded MAGA Podcaster in the WH Press Room

From the very first day that Donald Trump entered politics, he has been an avid opponent of the free press and the Constitution's First Amendment. He frequently refers to the media in Stalinist terms as "the enemy of the people." And whenever he is...

Trump Expands His War on the Press

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan A free press is a bulwark against authoritarianism. Trump knows this, which is why we all need to support and defend independent journalism, while we still can.

Beat the Press: How Team Trump Is Trying to Keep the Media in Check

Ahead of this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, VF editors discuss the president’s increasingly punitive crackdown on the press and the First Amendment.

At Anderson House, the Washington 2025 Women in Journalism Awards, co-organized by Story Partners DC, give the kick-off to a weekend full of events in the U.S. capital. Recognition highlights the work of journalists in a constantly changing political and media environment. To read [...]

Before the White House Correspondents Association's dinner this weekend, VF Publishers discuss the president's increasingly punitive repression against the press and the first amendment. This may seem like a strange moment to party in Washington. But this weekend, political journalists and [...]