Foreign Aid

Samantha Power, the last confirmed administrator of USAID under the Biden administration, told NPR she was shocked and horrified when the incoming Trump administrati...

Nicholas Enrich, a former senior USAID civil servant who served under four administrations, published a book titled Into the Woodchipper describing his account of ef...

Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart wrote an opinion piece describing a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 that requires the U.S. State Department to identi...

On June 25 twin earthquakes struck near Venezuela's capital region, killing at least 164 people and destroying multiple buildings. The U.S. announced a major respons...

The article reports that a senior State Department official and other sources credit a U.S. policy shift under the Trump administration—from traditional aid toward a...

At a U.S. Mission to the United Nations forum in New York, Ambassador Mike Waltz and other Trump administration officials presented a "Trade Over Aid" model that fav...

The Trump administration (second term) has halted or sharply reduced U.S. spending on international family planning and reproductive health programs despite Congress...

The article profiles Bill Steiger, the new CEO of the non-profit Malaria No More, and his perspective on the shifting landscape of U.S. global health policy, particu...

The article explains the concept of "soft power," crediting political scientist Joseph Nye with the term and defining it as achieving preferred outcomes by attractio...

The article details the devastating impact of U.S. and international aid cuts on shelters for women fleeing gender-based violence in Honduras. Lisseth, a shelter fou...

The article explores the evolving foreign aid strategies of both China and the United States, noting a period of convergence and competition between the two global p...

The article discusses the Trump administration's significant expansion of the Mexico City Policy, historically known for restricting U.S. funding to foreign organiza...