"We're all kind of guessing about it because we've not gotten a real clear explanation," said AEI's Kevin Kosar.

It takes a certain kind of warped sensibility to find the light side of cannibalism. But the late musical theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was up to the task. Some of the pioneering ...

A tweeted invitation from then-Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, teasing the world’s largest collection of a single instrument, did the trick. Lizzo’s scheduled tour turned into a three-hour visit ...

Hayden, both the first woman and first Black person to head the Library of Congress, was fired by President Donald Trump in May.

NEW YORK (AP) — Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been ...

The Library of Congress should have expected exactly what they got—Lizzo being Lizzo. Doing what she does, the way she does it, and being true to her own way of expressing herself. That’s art.

Lizzo plays the plexiglass flute on a visit to the Library of Congress’s Flute Vault. Photograph by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress. For one night only, the crystal flute and other instruments from ...

Lizzo was invited by Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, in an informal tweet to try out the Library’s collection of flutes, which included Madison’s crystal instrument, which was made by the ...

Popular singer and songwriter Lizzo made headlines after playing a 200-year-old crystal flute onstage, lent to her by the Library of Congress, that once belonged to the fourth President of the ...

Lizzo plays a flute that belonged to President James Madison at the Library of Congress on Sept. 26. —Photo: Shawn Miller/Library of Congress ...

Republicans are mad Lizzo played James Madison's 200-year-old crystal flute at her Tuesday concert. The Library of Congress lent Lizzo the flute for the Washington D.C. stop of her "Special" tour.