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Flooded With Help, But Still Flailing
“We were not prepared to make the best use of foreign support. Some foreign governments sought to contribute aid that the United States could not accept or did not require. In other cases, needed...
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Heritage Podcast: Jonesing for Action to Clean Up the Oil
Why is an act from the 1920s hindering a more efficient effort to clean up the Gulf coast? And why are politicians refusing to budge on a common-sense measure to bring more aid and technology into the...
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Foreign Aid Does Not Guarantee Security (Human or Otherwise)
In the midst of Congress’s roaring debate over budget cuts, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz weighed in last week to decry any talk of cutting foreign aid in a letter he titled “Human...
View ArticleForeign Aid: Coburn Focuses on Economic Growth, Corruption, and Results
Senator Tom Coburn’s (R–OK) plan to reduce the federal deficit by $9 trillion over the next 10 years includes cuts to the State Department and Foreign Affairs budget of nearly $190 billion. Part of...
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Help Poor People by Cutting Trade Barriers
In 2011, the U.S. government spent more than $22 billion in non-military foreign aid while collecting $6.8 billion in taxes on imports from the world’s poorest countries. Ironically, the government...
View ArticleIranian Earthquake Victims Blame Their Own Government
The fracture between Iran’s autocratic government and its people is growing ever wider in the aftermath of the two earthquakes that hit northern Iran last weekend. Tehran’s inadequate response is...
View ArticleNew State Dept. “Fact Sheets” Push More Government, More Spending on Foreign Aid
Recently, The Heritage Foundation reported that the State Department is making major changes to its venerable series of “Background Notes”—transforming them from useful reference materials into a new...
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul on the “Charade and Farce” of Debate in the Senate
On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul (R–KY) requested a vote on two amendments to S.3457, the Veterans Jobs Corps Act. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) blocked a vote on those amendments and has...
View ArticleRussian Reset Roulette: Putin Throws Obama’s Foreign Aid Under the Bus
The State Department announced yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed the United States he will not permit any further activities by the U.S. Agency for International Development...
View ArticleU.S. Foreign Aid Lacks Transparency, New Study Says
A new study by the international watchdog group Publish What You Fund finds U.S. foreign aid programs lagging seriously in transparency. According to the organization, transparency is critical for...
View ArticleMorning Bell: How Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Failing
Libya. Egypt. Syria. Iran. Russia. China. America’s relations with the world aren’t looking too good. President Obama said that in his Administration, America would reach out to other countries as “an...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Egypt’s President Moves Toward Dictatorship
Egypt remains in turmoil after its president decreed last Thursday that he was no longer subject to the laws of his country—giving himself power over the judiciary and other branches of government....
View ArticleForeign Aid: Europe’s Mistakes Should Be a Lesson for the U.S.
The European Union (EU) has hit a new low in its rule of law initiative to Kosovo, according to a recent report by the European Court of Auditors. With foreign aid and development programs as Europe’s...
View ArticleMessage to Obama Council: Economic Freedom Leads to Global Development
The new crop of nominees for President Obama’s Global Development Council need look no further than The Heritage Foundation’s just-published 2013 Index of Economic Freedom for inspiration. When the...
View ArticleForeign Aid: There Are Many Ways Conservatives Can—and Should—Help the Poor
Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament and one of Great Britain’s rising conservative political stars, reminds us that the fundamental error of the left is its “elevation of motive over...
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United Nations: U.S. Should Get More Bang for Its Buck
Newscom Shouldn’t American foreign aid be aimed at nations that promote and support the initiatives and priorities of the United States in the United Nations? This is the focus of The Heritage...
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The Arms Trade Treaty, Day One: Potential Roadblocks to Agreement
Shen Hong/ZUMApress/Newscom The “final” negotiating conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) opened in New York at the United Nations on Monday. As we have explained, we believe the ATT is a bad idea,...
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The Arms Trade Treaty, Days Four and Five: As the Temperature Rises, the...
Frank Chmura Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom The row between China and the European Union at the U.N. conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) got Thursday off to a heated start. By the time Friday...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Defending Freedom in North Korea’s Shadow
To lead the nation always under threat from North Korea, backbone is required. As the president of South Korea has demonstrated over her past two days in Washington, she is a vital figure at this time...
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Q&A: U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt
Raphael Fournier/Sipa USA/Newscom James Phillips, Heritage’s senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs, answers key questions about U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. What is U.S. foreign aid to Egypt?...
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