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Most people understand, in a basic sense, that diplomacy and development are important. However, we don’t often hear how agencies like the State Department and USAID are operating around the [...]

A few months ago, I wrote about how the House of Representatives eviscerated the foreign affairs budget in the 2012 budget process. Throughout the summer, we mobilized to pressure the Senate to [...]

We’ll hit 10 years of war in Afghanistan on October 7th. Think about it. What does it really mean to spend an entire decade at war? A generation of American kids is too young to remember a [...]

Today, Reuters reports that diplomacy and development programs face a “death of 1,000 cuts” in Congress: House Republicans have proposed whacking another $8.6 billion from the budget for the [...]

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

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

*Update: If you are outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, check out this calendar to find a Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration event near you. August 6th is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic [...]

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. [...]

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Pentagon’s gargantuan $649 billion budget, at a time when other departments are facing draconian cuts. Many representatives used the bill as an [...]