At the intersection of executive ambition and institutional integrity, a group of former employees at the United States Institute of Peace has turned to federal court to contest the Trump administration's plan to engrave the president's name on the agency's building. The Institute, chartered by Congress with an explicit mandate to remain nonpartisan, was designed as a rare space where the work of global peace could proceed untouched by the political currents of any given administration. The lawsuit asks a deeper question than it may first appear: whether the symbolic gestures of power can be c