The Street Journal4h
What does the suspension of US aid mean for Afghanistan?
Moves by US President Donald Trump suspending US foreign development assistance while curtailing the operations of USAID threaten to have a major impact on Afghanistan, which is dependent on outside ...
America Magazine8h
JD Vance got a lot wrong about St. Augustine’s ordering of loves
It is in this context that Vice President JD Vance introduced the idea of the ordo amoris, or ordering of loves, into this ...
In freezing foreign aid, the US leaves people to die – and allows China to come to the rescue
A$95 billion worth of USAID programs have been brought to a screeching halt. It’s a devastating decision for developing nations, but also for US foreign policy.
The Diplomat8d
Taliban at the Helm: Afghanistan’s Foreign Aid Crisis
How can the international community ensure that aid reaches the needy without empowering the Taliban or helping them ...
NBC News9d
U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for Afghans in U.S. custody, a senior Taliban leader with direct ...
Southern Poverty Law Center13d
Henry Harpending
This, in Harpending’s view, is the only reason the war in Afghanistan failed to produce a stable, democratic government. Harpending’s work provided a great deal of the foundation for Nicholas Wade’s ...
ctpublic13d
For Afghan refugees in Vermont, homeownership can become reality with new program
Hundreds of Afghan refugees have settled in Vermont in recent years. Now, one of those families wants to make the state feel ...
Associated Press16d
Billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites prepare for another Davos
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, while the number of the world ...
Mercury News17d
World News
The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after foreign aid stopped almost overnight. Sanctions against the country’s new rulers, a halt on bank transfers and frozen ...
Asia News Network19d
Indonesia’s poverty rate at historic low despite uptick in inequality
JAKARTA – Indonesia has recorded a historically low poverty rate, according to the latest survey conducted by Statistics Indonesia (BPS), but inequality has worsened slightly and remains particularly ...
Los Angeles Times20d
Jury finds CNN defamed security consultant in Afghanistan evacuation report
He extracted 22 employees for Bloomberg and Audible from Afghanistan. He said he never took money directly from Afghans, who CNN said in the piece were being exploited as they feared retribution ...
Southern Poverty Law Center20d
Robert Spencer
The Center for Security published another book by Spencer in 2021 titled Who Lost Afghanistan? The book says the “American foreign policy establishment’s bipartisan consensus refused to take seriously ...