Letter: Legislative Cruelty Continues

Letter: We need more news organizations like the BDN

Thank you for having the courage and integrity to write the editorial entitled “Cruelty is becoming a defining quality of America.” You have my gratitude and admiration. I think everything stated in the editorial is profoundly sad and true. I believe any decent person should be heartsick about the suffering that countless good and innocent people are suffering due to the lawless and cruel abductions taking place in our country. I used to get my …

Letter: Legislative cruelty continues

In both small and large ways, the Trump administration and its supporters know no bounds when it comes to cruelty. As the Fargo Forum reported, immediate “small” cuts to North Dakota programs include vaccines for children, radon mitigation for low-income homes and control of emerging and infectious diseases. Moreover, the “beautiful” bill just passed by the Senate includes cuts to food assistance in North Dakota (i.e., the SNAP program) and cuts…

‘Sickening’ and ‘evil’: Musk bashed for USAID cuts after study predicts millions could die

Medical experts and lawmakers are denouncing Elon Musk as cruel, after a new study predicted Trump's cuts to USAID could lead to 14 million deaths.

Letter to the Editor: Ed Norman - West Virginia Daily News

I have been watching current events unfold in our country and am moved to comment on what I have been seeing. In the recent past we saw the richest man in the world on behalf of the richest country in the world decide to deny food and medicine to the poorest starving children in the world. This was done with the full support of our elected representatives and by extension with the full support of the American people. It is worth noting that the …

USAID Cuts Leave Yazidi Tents in Tatters

Lynsey Addario / Contributor / Getty When Hadi Maao was five years old, his mud-brick home collapsed on him after Muslim extremists detonated car bombs in his northern Iraqi village. Seven years later, in 2014, ISIS jihadists forced his community in the district of Sinjar to flee to the mountains. Now 22, he is an asylum seeker in the Netherlands and sends a quarter of his meager earnings as a grocery shelf stocker to his family still sheltering…

On dismantling USAID: What happened to the American soul? Why has cruelty gained such a firm grip? — The South Dakota Standard

Part 1 of 2It must have been pure chance. The discovery of an old reporter’s notebook made me sad, to tears. It exposed a hollowness in our American soul that average people like me often seem helpless to fill.A hollowness that our current elected leaders and their impossibly wealthy compatriots in power mock as weakness. The discovery happened on Monday, on the day that the United States government under Donald Trump shut down the United States…