TED, the American conference known for its short, often inspiring talks on technology, entertainment and design is in ...

I just yelled at my aging, cancer-surviving mother,” she said. “I am so mad. I don’t understand how she voted for Trump.

Bridget Brink is stepping down as US Ambassador to Ukraine. Having served in this position for three years, she is leaving ...

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.

Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well. A member of the Congressional Hispanic ...

Americans have been able to take pride in being the greatest source of good in the history of the planet while spending just one dollar in a thousand on aid. And incidentally, America became ...

It’s been an eventful week for American financial markets. In response to the suite of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on April 2, major stock market indices saw some of their greatest ...

Foreign assistance offers collective benefit — to security interests, humanitarian values, and public health. But it is also ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has faced significant funding cuts under the current administration. In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of USAID ...

As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it has abandoned the country in its hour of need – and is ceding global ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — the nation’s cyber defense group — is also facing massive cuts to personnel. And staffers are feeling anxious about Trump’s order to the Justice ...

Polgreen: I think the other thing that I’ve been thinking about a lot is the role of those who are early to understand danger ...