White House Correspondents’ Dinner Dispatch: A Whirlwind Weekend of Lavish Parties, Press Anxieties, and Ambitious Upstarts

The Washington social scene was in full swing, with establishment players and emerging ones, from Substack to Status, saluting the First Amendment. Cocktails and conversation flowed, but not without some ambivalence. “I don’t think there’s much to celebrate,” said Jon Favreau, given the “attack on press freedom.”