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The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (Usaid) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege.

Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for what’s left of Usaid, according to an email sent by the State Department. Lewin previously helped Doge dismantle the agency, according to news reports. On Friday, Lewin signed an email officially shuttering Usaid and announcing a major reduction in force.

There is invigorating cinema to be found within the trials and travails of the French justice system. Last year proved this with Alice Diop’s brilliant “Saint Omer,” and this year, cinephiles can already add another film to the ranks of fascinating, fact-based French legal dramas: “The Goldman Case,” Cédric Kahn’s invigorating retelling of the 1976 trial involving Pierre Goldman, a Jewish radical charged with killing two women in a pharmacy robbery.

Kahn uses the simplicity of his movie’s structure — the action rarely leaves the courtroom — to underline the complexity of the circumstances and the prickly figure at its center, Goldman himself, played excellently by Belgian actor Arieh Worthalter, who gives his character the fervor that apparently made him a figurehead in his day. But Worthalter ambitiously refuses to allow Goldman to be easily sympathetic, leaning into his sometimes contradictory anger. Similarly, though there are timely themes at play...