The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
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What do US researchers make of all the Trump administration science-related policy changes? A survey of 280 academic scientists asked them.
A historic drop in violent crime, including the murder rate, is at risk after the cancellation of federal funding for programs that helped make the decline possible.
Centuries of American history foreshadow Donald Trump’s strategy of destruction.
When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to figure out on the fly how to support scientists and their work at his school.
A lack of transparency at both the federal and state level is making it increasingly difficult for journalists and citizens to hold government to account.
The Trump administration is rewriting the 80-year-old American social contract for science research.
Funding cuts for crisis services in the US will cause long-term problems in its ability to predict and respond in emergencies.
The Musk v Trump media battle went very public, but polls just after the scrap showing that Americans felt more favourably towards the president than Musk.
The US president has used and discarded many people in his career. The tech billionaire appears to be the latest.
As the Musk v Trump feud steps up a level there are classic signs from a psychological point of view of why they are falling out.
Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh and Gavin Newsom are among the high-ranking politicians reading and sharing Abundance – a book that urges the left to reset its priorities.
Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?
Since the 1800s, Congress has enacted laws to ensure that federal workers are hired on the basis of their professional qualifications - not their political loyalty.
Musk’s slashing of government jobs, programs and departments isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline government. William Howard Taft tried to do it − but very differently.
The Peace Corps isn’t doing the same foreign policy work the State Department carries out. But it still helps the American brand internationally.
Surveillance of speech by algorithm raises urgent questions about data privacy and the future of a neutral, expert public service.
Under the guise of efficiency and fraud prevention, the federal government is breaking down data silos to collect and aggregate information on virtually everyone in the US.
Burn it all down? For some Americans who feel they’ve lost social status, that’s exactly what they want DOGE to do.
The actions of the Trump administration on several fronts exhibit scientifically defined features of stupidity of many kinds.
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