After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of ...

Elon Musk is the face of DOGE, but Russell Vought is the brains. He’s been planning such a crusade since well before Project ...

The health department is convinced that all US government funding for HIV and TB projects in SA will end by 30 September.

Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term has started, Part 2 of the series has commenced. Few would argue that the changes in ...

The slashing of the overseas aid budget coming from the US, by shuttering USAID, the primary agency for channelling American ...

Employees and supporters protest outside the headquarters for United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Monday, February 3, 2025, after Elon Musk posted on social media that he ...

Pete Marocco, the official who oversaw the dismantling of USAID, has now parted ways with ... expenditures over $10,000 for the office with a budget of $225 million. "He has leveraged once-routine ...

The Trump administration is mulling a proposal that would slash the State Department budget by $27 billion — nearly in half — and shutter smaller embassies and consulates across the globe.

American soft power is threatened as USAID pauses programs, says Kirsten Weeks, a global public health leader with over 25 ...