The author would like to thank Lynn Eisenberg, Toby Merrill, and Jennifer Rodriguez for their invaluable research assistance. President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing
to issue one or multiple Executive Orders (EOs) aimed at ultimately eliminating the department of Education. [...]
Republicans and Democrats alike have long recognized the importance of foreign aid to U.S. national security. In 2017, for example, then-Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, argued,
“Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of [the federal government’s] budget and critical to our national security.” [...]
The Trump Administration has been on a firing spree inside the Department of Justice. On January 20th, immediately after President Donald Trump took office, the administration
fired four career officials in the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EIOR), including the Chief Immigration Judge and the EOIR’s acting Director. James [...]
An obscure diplomatic dispute over who should draft United Nations Security Council resolutions on Afghanistan is turning into a major row between the United States and China
in the world body. The debate, which has been brewing since late 2024 but has escalated in recent weeks since the Trump administration took over the U.S. [...]
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While much of the world’s attention has rightly been focused on the immediate humanitarian and security consequences of President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign assistance,
that freeze also encompasses support for democracy and human rights activists fighting to make their societies more responsive to the needs and rights of their citizens. [...]
At the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, he and his administration have issued unprecedented directives to halt domestic and foreign spending in order to align
that spending with his “America First” agenda. The orders have had immediate and sweeping impacts, including widespread confusion over exactly what funding must [...]
The U.S. government’s move to freeze foreign aid and shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has multiple negative impacts, from the direct harm
to maternal and child health to eliminating education initiatives, economic growth programs, and anti-corruption efforts. [...]
This weekend, hundreds of global leaders will convene at the Munich Security Conference to debate a wide range of pressing global challenges, from defense policy to sustainability.
Emerging technology will rank high on the agenda, especially after the rise of China’s DeepSeek upended markets, spurring debate about U.S. [...]