Zoom out. Let me invite you to step out of our comfort here in the Hague. I was born in Manila, the Philippines, country of 110 plus million people.As a child, I watch the evening news. It's a country that's a paradise, but it also experienced a lot of natural and human-made disasters. Typhoons, earthquakes, floods, families and rubble, armed conflict in several parts of the archipelago, children and families and shelters and evacuation centers from the people of the United States of America.Those were the ...

I went to Washington for college. I arrived two weeks before September 11th, 2001. On that morning, I sat in intro to microeconomics in 8 a.m. class. My professor started the lecture by saying a plane had hit the World Trade Center.I and others thought he meant something like a Sesna, a small plane. When I left class 90 minutes later, the world had changed. People were literally walking home from DC and I could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon.That day and the days that followed led me to pursue a car ...

Haitians are left hoping, once again, that foreigners can help bring their country into the light. Read why in The World Ahead https://t.co/NU3AmgkpVu ...

RT Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie)These three billionaires have spent two million dollars smearing my name because I don’t vote for foreign aid, I won’t infringe on free speech, and I won’t endorse the war being waged by their favorite country (hint: it’s not 🇺🇸). https://t.co/TO75gswWNq ...

Aid Impact - Previous US aid accounted for over 66% of health improvement aid in sub-Saharan Africa [1] - Dismantling USAID may lead to hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, of additional deaths [1]

The UK’s Conservative Party promised to slash spending on welfare, foreign aid and the civil service in a bid to re-establish its credentials as a sound steward of the economy 15 months after being ejected from power https://t.co/1ZMROBx8pQ ...

When the president began slashing foreign aid, officials feared America would give up funding developing countries entirely. Instead, a new approach has emerged https://t.co/rPJgS6ONZj ...

Africa faces a “distressing decline” in foreign health aid and should raise more money domestically, including via taxes on tobacco and alcohol, said South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana https://t.co/oBtHU8WnTS ...

Lisa, we've been talking earlier about uh the poll that uh New York Times published, New York Times Sienna poll about Israel. This is something and I'll just say it. I I feel like I need to say this.This is something we have been warning I specifically have been warning my friends that I grew up with, that I was in politics with, that have always been pro-Israeli. People always joke, Joe, if you ever want a key to the city of Tel Aviv, you can go in any time and they will do it because nobody has been a fie ...

And joining us now, New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff. Nick, your latest piece for the New York Times entitled The Tax on Being a Girl. You write about your travels, meeting women and men across Africa who are being affected by these cuts to foreign aid.And you write in part this. Men and boys are hurt as well by the collapse in medical assistance, but women seem to be particularly suffering because of a crisis in reproductive health care. And already one of the most dangerous things a girl can do in p ...