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USAID-funded programs have helped prevent more than 91 million deaths since 2001. Projections suggest cuts may result in more ...
Rossotrudnichestvo Chief Yevgeny Primakov (left) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk (second left) at a Russia House in Dushanbe in June 2025. (Photo: gov.ru) The head of ...
USAID became yet another bloated bureaucracy to provide employment for people with useless degrees. It was reported that only twelve percent of the aid actually made to it the intended recipients.
July 1 is the official end date for the agency that President Trump dismantled. We talk to four former top officials about this milestone event.
When the Trump administration took over, one of its first major moves was dismantling the United States Agency for International Development. Nearly six months later, it officially shuts down Tuesday.
In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham reports on the impact USAID cuts are having on HIV testing and treatment in Kenya.
Simultaneously, USAID and similar agencies collaborated with the United Nation’s World Health Organization (WHO) to eradicate smallpox and radically reduce polio, ending pandemics that had been the ...
Cuts to USAID have consequences big and small, reaching all the way down to high school science fairs in the U.S.
Recent cuts to U.S. foreign assistance made by the Trump administration include major pullbacks on U.S. contributions to the United Nations. This jeopardizes U.S. leadership on humanitarian aid, ...
Trump’s dismantling of USAID dispenses with even the pretence of generosity. In the much-heralded ‘New Cold War’, developing countries are unlikely to be empowered to pursue autonomous development ...