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United States Agency for International Development
March 11, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
USAID Ordered to Shred or Burn Classified Documents in Alarming Move
Staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development have received a troubling order on what to do with their classified documents.
March 6, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk’s DOGE Sued After Using U.S. Marshals to Take Over Agency
The U.S. African Development Foundation is doing everything it can to stop the illegal takeover of its agency.
March 3, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
USAID Official Ousted While Writing Scathing Memo on Trump Cuts
Nicholas Enrich was preparing a third damning memo on Donald Trump and Marco Rubio’s cuts to USAID before he was forced out.
February 28, 2025
Alex Shephard
It Keeps Getting Worse—and No One Is Safe
Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined “enemies within.” Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.
February 21, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Judge Rules Trump Can Demolish USAID as He Pleases
A federal judge has allowed Donald Trump to proceed with gutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.
February 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Has Truly Wild Defense for Letting Elon Musk Run Rampant
The House speaker brushed aside concerns about Elon Musk gutting the government.
February 5, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Elon Musk Just Completed His Sinister Takeover of USAID
Elon Musk has put all agency employees on leave.
February 3, 2025
Mark Leon Goldberg
The Death of USAID: These People Are out of Their Freaking Minds
The world’s richest man and its most powerful one have killed the one government agency that does the most to support the world’s most vulnerable people. There will be consequences.
May 30, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Latest Biden Officials’ Resignations Over Gaza Are Extra Messed Up
Their now former boss wrote a book on genocide prevention.
September 18, 2012
Julia Ioffe
Russia Tries to Kill U.S. Democracy Promotion Once and For All
February 4, 2011
David Rieff
The Failure of U.S. Aid in Egypt
December 27, 2010
Noam Scheiber
Game Changer
September 17, 2010
David Rieff
If Disaster Aid Is Key to the War on Terrorism, Then Why Won't Obama Appoint Someone to Coordinate Disaster Aid?
September 4, 2010
Aroop Mukharji
Egypt's Regime Will Change
August 23, 2010
David Rieff
Hillary Clinton's Naïve, Muddled Approach to Development
August 16, 2010
David Rieff
Losing Hearts and Minds: Development and Its Discontents
August 3, 2010
David Rieff
How NGOs Became Pawns in the War on Terrorism
March 12, 2010
Andrew Rice
Nuclear Standoff
February 8, 2010
Martin Peretz
Voodoo, Development and the Culture of Haiti
January 27, 2010
Michael Crowley
Islamabad Boys

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