The White House announced last January that waging war on the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy” would be among its first orders of business. Unfortunately, many other rich-country governments are ...

President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this year, and other Western countries, including Britain and Germany, followed ...

Among the 26 executive orders issued by Donald Trump on the first day of his return to the White House — targeting everything from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs to the renaming of U.S.

Every year, the Future Perfect team curates the undersung activists, organizers, and thinkers who are making the world a better place. This year’s honorees are all keeping progress on global health ...

Foreign aid has long been a way for the United States and China to gain soft power and influence — providing public services in low-income countries that help them tackle poverty and disease, and ...

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go. Furniture, files and equipment at a medical site ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The New York Times has a front-page story today on how U.S. foreign aid programs face major budget cuts. Why the Times chose today to run the story is anyone’s guess. The gloomy budgetary picture for ...

Max was a Senior Research Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. The Trump Administration has dismantled America’s multibillion-dollar foreign aid apparatus ...

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Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that ...