Established during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement (LFPA) and Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement (LFS) provide crucial funding for food banks and schools while also boosting local economies through non-competitive cooperative agreements. In March 2025, the USDA announced it would freeze the millions of dollars in funding used to facilitate these programs as “part of the end of th

Columbia University, along with the current administration, has faced scrutiny for thrusting deportation threats upon two international student protestors. In particular, it has become increasingly clear how President Donald Trump has utilized the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to target student activists who he ideologically disagrees with on the basis of their alleged threat to the security of the nation.

Defunding the USAID’s infectious disease programs is not only dangerous, but short-sighted. Global health aid programs are not an act of benevolence we can afford to revoke: it is an essential investment in the health of Americans now and forever. The U.S. must restore and protect these programs to preserve global health security, soft power, and economic resilience in a globalized, post-COVID world.

Between January 2023 and August 2024, the number of anti-South Asian slurs in extremist online spaces doubled from 23,000 to over 46,000 slurs and 60% of anti-Asian slurs were directed at South Asians.

Providing aid for the Sudanese people and weapons to be used against the RSF is a necessary step in developing U.S.-Sudanese relations and ensuring an end to the famine and systematic slaughter that have plagued Sudan since 2023, and for the people of Sudan, a second Trump presidency represents a slowly growing hope that a democratic future is not so far off after all.

Trump’s recent executive orders placing tariffs on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry may spell trouble for the nation. Despite Taiwanese officials noting their existing mutually beneficial relationship with the United States regarding semiconductors and computer chips, it seems Trump is steadfast in his desires to eliminate the offshoring of chip manufacturing.