The proposed White House ballroom is wholly incompatible with the site

Opposition to Donald Trump's White House expansion plans has focused on the building itself but the implications for the grounds are just as egregious, writes Charles A Birnbaum.

The debate about the proposed White House ballroom has prompted questions about stewardship of the nation's most important cultural patrimony. But it also illustrates how landscape architecture has been ignored, and how principled regulatory processes have been twisted into a performative auto-da-fé.

On October 15...