Trump Is Losing Ground With White Working-Class Voters on the Economy

A review of polling data shows an extraordinary swing among white working-class voters on the president’s handling of the economy.Among blue-collar white voters, President Trump’s approval rating on the cost of living stood at just 36 percent in a New York Times survey.

S Shane Goldmacher

Kennedy Center Removes Trump’s Name From Facade

The arts institution followed a judge’s order to take President Trump’s name off its facade. It had been granted a 12-hour extension to complete the work.On Friday night, workers constructed scaffolding near President Trump’s name on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

E Elizabeth Williamson and Julia Jacobs

Despite US Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz

President Trump said more than 200 commercial vessels had safely traveled through the strait. That’s still far fewer than before the start of the war.Global stockpiles of oil continue to decline as vessels remain stuck, unable to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

P Peter Eavis

SpaceX’s Unlikely Journey From Far-Out Idea to $2 Trillion Juggernaut

Elon Musk said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10 percent chance of succeeding. His rocket company has come a long way.A SpaceX ad on the Nasdaq MarketSite tower in Times Square. The company, which Elon Musk founded in 2002, began trading on the stock market on Friday.

R Ryan Mac, Kenneth Chang and Kirsten Grind

How David Hockney Taught Los Angeles to See Itself

A Brit, he became a symbol of the city’s culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.David Hockney repainted his own pool — and signed and dated it July 8, 2017, the day before his 80th birthday.

J Jori Finkel

David Hockney and the Bliss of Not Standing Still

“As important as the boys and the pools and the light,” a memoirist writes, “the most important thing was becoming the driving.” It would inspire an obsession with moving focus into the future.

L Lawrence Weschler