Alternatives to War

                    With the super committee in place with a mandate to come up with more than a trillion dollars in deficit reduction, and the [...]

I am feeling inspired by a great call last night with Rep. Barbara Lee and Shannon Scribner of Oxfam America. Now it’s time to act. The House slashed billions of dollars from the 2012 [...]

The debate about raising the debt ceiling is mercifully over, though few people seem happy with the final outcome. Much of the debate about the deal has focused on domestic spending and [...]

Last week, the House State and Foreign Operations Committee approved an international affairs budget that endangers critical global diplomatic and development initiatives:   The [...]

On July 9th, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation after a referendum vote in favor of independence in January. As someone whose early activism and research focused on slavery and conflict [...]

One of the misguided reasons people criticize spending on foreign aid is that we need to spend money to create jobs and improve the quality of life here at home. While direct spending on those [...]

This year, Republicans have taken the lead in slashing funds for critical international diplomacy and development programs in next year’s budget under the guise of helping reduce the deficit. [...]

Foreign aid has been an attractive target for too many politicians and pundits in the debate around government spending. Despite the fact that foreign aid is a tiny portion of the federal budget, [...]

After seeing the destruction and devastation caused by the war in Afghanistan, and hearing countless stories of corruption amongst Afghan officials and private contractors, a lot of people want [...]

While the US continues wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, the Obama administration has also quietly ramped up military action in Yemen. In an attempt to take advantage of unrest in the [...]