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Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid — ProPublica

Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalating a constitutional crisis.

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United …

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas p…

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Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy

This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the gl…

The Weaponized World Economy

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was the true opening of the age of weaponized interdependence, in which the United States is discovering what it is like to have others do unto it as it has eagerly done unto others.

A nation that never has to pay

Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida

Strategic interdependence is rewiring the global economy

It is no longer sufficient for the US-China trade relationship to be driven solely by cost and efficiency

Jewish Liberation Fund

Jewish Liberation Fund is grounded in the belief that the American Jewish community has enough resources to bring forth the liberatory world of which we dream.

CONTROLLER IMMIGRATION RESOURCES & CITY RESPONSE

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The American Dream Starts Now

Trump Accounts provide eligible American children with tax-advantaged investment accounts courtesy of President Donald J. Trump.

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Structural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrence

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank implemented neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) across most countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. SAPs imposed austerity, privatisation and economic deregulation and have been associated with severe negative impacts on human welfare, including (a) declining real wages and working-class consumption, (b) increased rates of poverty and basic-needs deprivation, (c) increased neonatal and maternal mortality and (d) reduced health system access. Structural adjustment also created conditions for increased financial outflows and drain from the global South through unequal exchange. This paper reviews evidence of these damages and proposes possible options for reparations and distributive justice. We argue that the IMF and the World Bank should be democratised and restructured—or otherwise replaced by alternative institutions—to prevent further harm.

Learning From the International Struggle

Over the last twenty years, illiberal forces have coordinated ideas, personnel, and finances across international borders. Liberals can learn from this.