Alex Leff

Feb 3, 2025 | wunc.org | Alex Leff

Updated February 03, 2025 at 18:48 PM ETThe U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, has fallen in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and Elon Musk's government efficiency push, sending chills through the humanitarian world and drawing criticism from Democratic lawmakers and nonpartisan foreign service workers. Late Sunday, Elon Musk said the team he calls the Department of Government Efficiency was in the process of "shutting down USAID," with President Trump's support.

Feb 3, 2025 | laist.com | Alex Leff

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Oct 2, 2024 | opb.org | Rebecca Rosman |Alex Leff

Israeli troops battled Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon and fended off their rockets into Israel on Wednesday, even as Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza and vowed a “painful” response for Iran’s Tuesday night missile strikes on Israel. The Israeli military said eight of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, in its first reports of losses in combat against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah since Israel launched its ground offensive there late Monday.

Sep 30, 2024 | kpbs.org | Daniel Estrin |Alex Leff

Updated September 30, 2024 at 19:44 PM ETTEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has launched what it called a "limited, localized" ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The ground raids are targeting Hezbollah "in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel," the Israeli military said on social media late Monday.

Sep 6, 2024 | resilience.org | Alex Leff

You were born in Crazy Town. You’ve lived your whole life among denizens of delusion, stuck in a culture that believes unlimited growth on a finite planet is perfectly reasonable. You’ve watched as they clear cut the forests, removed whole mountaintops, smothered the earth in asphalt, and most unforgivingly: ran their gas powered leaf blowers from dawn till dusk. And despite your concern, you have participated in all this, reluctantly perhaps, but in Crazy Town all must participate to survive.