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The Vietnam War Ended 50 Years Ago, but the Battle With Agent Orange Continues
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated ...
American Panopticon
An American surveillance society that fully stitched together the data the government already possesses would require ...
From Greenland to Ghana, Indigenous youth work for climate justice
A year after his presidential ambitions collapsed, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey can no longer lay claim to the future ...
From dread to action: Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID
A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs ...
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Devex Career Hub: 3 things to know about working post-USAID
This week, advice on how to navigate a post-USAID working world, what we learned from our latest job board data analysis of ...
Where is the common sense and decency in shuttering USAID, an organization that helps - us, and so many others? Cathy Jane Bowes
Demand that U.S. Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted and U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce stand up to the administration to end the freeze ...
USAID cuts felt far outside Washington, D.C.: "Layoff trauma hit across the country"
Close to 20,000 employees — many living in states such as North Carolina, Vermont, California and Georgia — lost their jobs ...
Food for Peace Showed How Foreign Aid Can Benefit Both the U.S. and the World
Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy.
As a former USAID director, I saw firsthand their good work. Here are some examples.
A Nassau County man, who spent nearly 30 years with USAID, laments the abrupt shutdown of the agency and shares some of its ...
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With Assad gone and Syria's war over, the White Helmets have a new mission
Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in ...
The dangers posed by cuts to U.S. foreign aid
Trump's policies have targeted American foreign aid, and with it the humanitarian groups whose work it funds around the world ...
I was furloughed from my global public health job due to the USAID freeze. Foreign aid makes the US safer and stronger.
American soft power is threatened as USAID pauses programs, says Kirsten Weeks, a global public health leader with over 25 ...