A "Trumpified" USAID will now rate countries's suitability for aid based on criteria developed by a far-right think tank... that wants to end development aid.
Regions / Africa
Corporate malfeasance saps the African continent of billions in badly needed funds each year — and the U.S. is a top destination.
Progressive legislators can help Zimbabwe embrace African-led solutions to poverty and corruption that put people ahead of corporations.
It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
Despite dire warnings, politically influential big banks continue to lend billions to the fossil fuel industry every year.
Long ignored by the media, the people of Chagos struggle relentlessly to reclaim islands that the U.S. and U.K. stole for a military base.
White South Africans are 8 percent of the country's population and hold 70 percent of its arable land. Apparently that's not enough for a global chorus of white supremacists.
Bad pathogens and bad policies go hand-in-hand.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of its establishment, the International Criminal Court needs to up its game.
Over 22.5 million people have been forced to flee their countries. Last year, less than 200,000 were resettled.