With more than $1 billion of funding withheld, leaders including Amy Grant and a Trump adviser sent a letter to White House officials.

After 18 months, Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE officially came to an end on July 4, but the fallout from its cuts continues. Boston University's Global Impact Counter estimates the dismantling of ...

World's richest man denies hurting world's poorest

Original organizers, joined by new wave, are demanding the government not undo four decades of progress

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A new study has found that the Trump administration's decision last year to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development — once a leading global aid donor — was followed by a significant inc...

In August 1973, Rep. Donald Fraser, a Democrat from Minnesota, convened a series of House hearings on human rights and American foreign policy. It was a dark moment for democracy globally and in the U...

In the face of death and disease, global health workers struggle to keep hope alive.

The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

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Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.

"Reforming the broken global aid system feels more urgent and perhaps more attainable than ever before," writes Andrew Thompson

A religious movement that has so often taken public stands has been unusually quiet since Trump gutted the program to combat AIDS in Africa.

The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere — but especially in poorer countries.

(And Why It Doesn’t Matter)

HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The cuts in US foreign aid have probably caused hundreds of thousands of people to die. But real-time data on what is actually going on has been scarce. A new working paper is the first I've seen to s...

The US Congress has just passed its Fiscal Year 2026 spending bill. The bill includes much of the international affairs budget and—while there’s no guarantee these funds will be fully spent by the adm...

The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

In the wake of American soft power efforts leaving Iraq, Chinese interest in the nation continues to replace it. The current administration’s “America First” approach to politics has minimized foreign...

Given the US’ major contribution to aid, Trump’s cuts could push 5.7 million more Africans into extreme poverty next year.

The anniversary of USAID's dismantling is a moment to reckon with the human toll — 25 million fewer people reached with aid, 2,000+ clinics closed, children dying of malnutrition in refugee camps — bu...

Destruction of world's largest humanitarian programme was done without formal authority or official oversight, former USAID employees claim

With USAID’s closure, how can the global development sector achieve the same impact with a fraction of the resources?

Not everyone is so enthusiastic about the new health financing agreements Washington is striking with African countries

A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit

Under Trump, foreign aid is no longer an ideal. It’s just a deal.

The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.

Igniting philanthropy to make opportunity universal

In a memo, the officials overseeing the shutdown of what remains of USAID explain the rationale behind the ban, saying: “By recruiting a fresh workforce, the Agency aims to avoid the risk of impaired ...

The United States is abdicating its leadership in global health, represented by people like the late Dr. William Foege, who helped to eradicate smallpox, writes public health expert.

Andrew Green has spent the last year collecting stories of people affected by the PEPFAR disruption, traveling to Malawi, Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, and Thailand to document the impact. He publishes o...

One year after President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid, HIV treatment still exists across much of Africa — but the outreach, prevention, and monitoring systems that sustained it are fraying. The...

USAID Media has been tracking coverage of the USAID shutdown since it happened. Compiling all this, it has been disheartening to see the lack of coverage from US outlets compared to publications like ...

Alex Natsios on the dismantling of USAID and what we lost