Opinion | Madison Peace Corps alums work to counter Trump policies

Can you imagine anything more antithetical to the monumental jingoism of Donald Trump than the mission and spirit of the nation’s Peace Corps? Neither can I. Many of us these days are hunkering down, avoiding most Trump and Elon Musk news and quietly grieving our nation’s direction. So, when I learned that a local group of Peace Corps alums is working to actively push back, I took notice. Some background: The city of Madison, specifically the University of Wisconsin, is a long-established hotbed for Peace Corps recruitment. The campus produced more volunteers than any other American university in 2023, and...