C-SPAN is sending multimedia journalists to battleground states to expand unfiltered video coverage of competitive House, Senate, and gubernatorial races in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections. The initiative, called "Road to the Capitol: Candidate Coverage from the Trail," offers free video coverage to news partners enabling voters to see and hear candidates director, notes More Perfect, an alliance of 44 Presidential Centers, National Archives Foundation, and other organizations promoting democracy, which is participating in the initiative with C-SPAN. The move "responds to a widening gap in local political journalism," notes More Perfect.

  If you missed watching the Marcel Duchamp birthday chess playoff at MoMA last month (above, with Chess Master Susan Polgar), you can get your own game on this summer, starting with an evening of chess at the Noguchi Museum and Garden tomorrow night. Scroll down for info. Readymade inventor Marcel Duchamp encoded the ultimate Dada strategy when he stated, in 1923, that he was quitting art and devoting himself to playing chess. The artist who championed wordplay, absurdity, and gender-ben...