Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire, attaining a net worth of $1,100,000,000,000, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list. The tipping point was the release of SpaceX’s initial public offering at $135 per share, giving the company a total…
DOGE didn’t even know what USAID did, new book contends
Many of those tasked with shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development last year were completely unaware of the agency’s purpose and effectiveness, a former USAID official said. “I put Trump administration officials into two categories: Those who were cruel…
243,000 more children died last year due to Trump’s tactics
Almost a quarter of a million more children are projected to have died in 2025 than in 2024 following a decline in global aid from the U.S. and other nations, reversing steady declines in child deaths dating back to 1990….
Equal Justice USA to shut down
Equal Justice USA has announced the “hard news” that it will shut down due to the Trump administration’s revocation of more than $3 million in federal grant funding. “After dozens of meetings and hours of analysis and deliberations, the leadership…
DOGE Comes for Catholic Education
The dizzying Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) news cycle may seem to many like the distant past, but the slimming down of the federal government continues.
Thin places, sacred spaces: Why our national parks matter
Driving through the fog gave the air a thickness that seemed to envelop us, to welcome us into a place that fizzled with eternity. A group of friends and I had traveled into the Cades Cove area of the Great…
The ‘Dogefather’ leaves the building
Elon Musk, the billionaire industrialist who donated $275 million to help Donald Trump win reelection and then served as the public face of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, left Washington, D.C., on Friday. Trump celebrated his 130 days of…
Judge bars Trump administration from shutting peace institute that sought to end violent conflicts
A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an organization taken over in March by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
When Trump is under water in Texas, pay attention
The Houston Chronicle reported May 7 that for the first time, more Texans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy than approve. That says a lot more about Trump than it does about any changes in Texas. Yes,…
100 Days into the Trump presidency, we are living in the Upside Down
In Netflix’s Stranger Things, the residents of fictional Hawkins, Ind., live right above a parallel dimension known as the Upside Down, a frightening, alternative version of reality. A portal into the Upside Down brings the show’s characters to a place…
Remnant of USAID projected to have 15 employees
Employee by employee, project by project, the U.S. Agency for International Development is inching closer and closer to extinction in all but name. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on March 28 announced a massive reorganization of USAID to drastically reduce…
For whatever evangelicals sow, that will they also reap
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its march through the federal government after two months of chaos, and Christian organizations are beginning to feel the heat. On March 10, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of…