What remained at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment. The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term,

A White House correspondents’ dinner that lacks the traditional comedy act doesn’t necessarily translate to a more somber-than-usual evening. In 2019, the historian Ron Chernow gave a lecture and everyone had a pretty decent time;