Kari Donovan

( Proposed Arch in the Oval Office on October 7, 2025 Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) A dispute over a court brief supporting President Donald Trump’s proposed Triumphal Arch has exposed disagreements among veterans organizations about the monument and how their support was represented. The Curious American is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

( Proposed Arch in the Oval Office on October 7, 2025 Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) Christi Tasker, national press secretary for Veterans for America First, puts a central question before the public: Why should President Donald Trump need another congressional authorization if Congress approved the underlying project in 1925? That is VFAF’s position, as Tasker explained in an interview.

Ben Bergquam has spent years walking toward places most reporters would rather observe from a studio. On Friday’s WarRoom, however, Steve Bannon turned the camera away from the border, the ballot-counting centers and the political combat and toward the man behind the reporting. Appearing on the September 4 broadcast, Bergquam discussed his forthcoming book, Step Into Fear: A Journey from Addiction to Courage and Purpose, scheduled for release September 8 by War Room Books.