Last year, the Trump administration and members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) forcibly took over the US Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent nonprofit. Since then, the organization’s fired board and employees have been fighting to regain control of the USIP building in Washington, DC, and for the reinstatement of their jobs in a drawn-out court battle. In May, a court held that the administration’s takeover of USIP’s building and firing of its staff were unlawful; the next month, an appeals court issued a stay on that ruling. In December, the Trump administration renamed the building the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, even affixing the president’s name to its edifice. It certainly has no right to open the building to a new international organization like the proposed Board of Peace,” says Foote.