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Last week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a report on aid efforts in Afghanistan. Many of the problems they highlight line up with the criticisms we have made of the large-scale, [...]

While much of the world’s attention is focused elsewhere, there are still 2.5 million displaced people in Darfur who are struggling to survive. Oxfam gives us another powerful example of the [...]

Part of the process of truly making development a key pillar of US foreign policy is improving the way we do it. This requires getting down to the fact about what works and what doesn’t, and [...]

As we have noted many times on this blog, important diplomatic and development programs are under attack in Congress. Polls show that Americans are misinformed about how much of the federal [...]

Second-term Reps. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) banded together to send an important message to new incoming members of the House: support the foreign affairs budget: We must [...]

In Republicans’ deficit-cutting hysteria, one area that has been targeted for major cuts is the foreign affairs budget, which funds critical diplomacy and development programs. The longer we let [...]