The U.S. DOGE Service and red tape, in readers' eyes.

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...

The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller.

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal.

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A former USAID mission director reflects on decades of soft power diplomacy dismantled in months, and the human cost now surfacing worldwide.

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off a grant to a long-running program that aimed to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Nepal.

Two PIH experts analyze what is happening to global health funds that aren’t being spent as they were allocated by Congress.

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USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Red Indiana has two Republican Senators. One is Jim Banks, an ultra-MAGA Christian nationalist slavishly devoted to Trump– an ideologue beyond the reach of law or logic. The other is Todd You…

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...

On Rapid Response, Bob Safian talks with Dr. Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child, about the real-world fallout from USAID cuts. She warns that the U.S. was the world's top humanitarian donor, and gutt...

Fact sheet examining actions taken by the Trump administration and their impact on global maternal and child health.

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

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The U.S. State Department's hurried takeover of aid programs from the shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) last year was hampered by staffing shortages, IT issues and delayed gu...

The administration knew it could not fire career employees for their politics or for invented misconduct, so it dressed the purge as a “reorganization.”