Judge Rules DOGE’s USAID Dismantling Likely Violates The Constitution
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those put on administrative leave, though it stops short of reversing firings or fully resurrecting the agency.
The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attacks On Trans People – Opinion
A country that has pushed one group out of its political community will eventually push out others. The Trump administration’s barrage of attacks on trans people can seem haphazard, but as elements of a denationalization project, they fall into place. In his Inaugural Address and one of his first executive orders, President Trump asserted that only two sexes exist: male and female, established at conception and immutable. Trans people, in other words, do not exist.
Our Silence In The Face Of Genocide
The world’s worst humanitarian crisis today is probably the web of famine, civil war, mass rape and other atrocities in Sudan, a nightmare that the United States has formally described as genocide. Many tens of thousands have been killed, 11 million Sudanese have been displaced, the most lethal famine in decades may be underway, and Unicef warns that children as young as 1 year old are being raped. Yet the Trump administration is now cutting back on humanitarian assistance, aggravating the starvation.
Front-end Criminal Justice Reforms Are Key To Addressing Systemic Inequities
While America’s justice system burns through $80 billion annually on incarceration, many think tanks and policy advocates remain stubbornly focused on reentry programs as their primary reform solution. The greater opportunity lies in rewinding the process entirely—focusing on diversion programs and front-end reforms that prevent people from ever entering prison walls in the first place.