On July 1, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) effectively ceased operations. With it went 83 percent of US assistance programs—over 5,300 projects. A study in The ...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States offers a window to reflect on the country’s identity and leadership. This reflection exercise is common in conversations about immigration, ...

On February 3, 2025, exactly 20 years after former South African President Nelson Mandela stood in front of a cheering crowd in London’s Trafalgar Square to launch a historic global campaign to “make ...

When Samantha Power walked out of the United States Agency for International Development's headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the last time on January 20, 2025, she had no idea what was to become ...

The United States is leaving some of the world’s oldest and most influential scientific networks involved in biodiversity research, climate science and conservation. Affected organizations tell Nature ...

In the wake of the foreign aid freeze implemented by the Trump administration last year, the global development landscape has experienced significant disruption, resulting in a much leaner funding ...

The gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2025 has had catastrophic consequences, including in South Sudan where amid ongoing war, an estimated 33 million people ...

Advocates, public health experts, and healthcare providers gathered for the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS on Sept. 17 in Anaheim, Calif.