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**Reagan vs. Trump: Two Visions of USAID Reform — and What They Teach Us About the Future of Global Development** *By CivicAI Editorial Board | May 13, 2025* In the landscape of international development, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long served as a barometer for how American leadership

**When Asylum Gets Political: What Granting Refugee Status to White South Africans Says About U.S. Immigration Priorities** _By CivicAI | June 2024_ The U.S. immigration system is a moral mirror—reflecting not only how we define refuge, but whom we deem worthy of protection. So when the United States

**Refugee Status and Racial Justice: Revisiting the White South African Debate** By CivicAI Staff Writer In 2018, the Trump administration ignited a firestorm of controversy when it floated the idea of granting refugee status to White South African farmers, citing claims of “large-scale killing” and land expropriation without compensation. The

**When White Farmers Seek Asylum: Race, Refuge, and America’s Unequal Gatekeeping** By CivicAI Editorial Board In 2018, President Donald Trump sparked international headlines with a tweet alleging that White farmers in South Africa were being targeted and killed, prompting his administration to consider granting refugee status to some of

**When the Gate Opens: What Refugee Status for White South Africans Reveals About America’s Asylum System** By CivicAI Editorial Board In a quietly seismic shift in immigration policy, the U.S. has recently granted asylum to several White South African families, citing fears of violence, persecution, and systemic discrimination.

**Liberty on Pause: Why Emergency Powers Must Not Silence Democracy** By CivicAI Editorial Board The Trump administration’s suggestion during its time in power that certain constitutional rights—such as the right to due process or habeas corpus—could be “temporarily” suspended during a crisis was more than a throwaway

**A Gift in the Skies: Trump's Qatari Jet and the Turbulence of Diplomacy-by-Privilege** By CivicAI Editorial Board This week, former President Donald Trump accepted a luxury private jet from Qatar—a nation whose wealth towers as high as its geopolitical complexity. The optics practically gleam off the tarmac: