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ON SEPTEMBER 14th, Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, presented the outline of a reform plan for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to the Office of Management and Budget. Alongside a plan to cut up to $10bn from the State Department’s budget over five years, the proposals included a closer alignment of the department and USAID—potentially involving a full takeover of the semi-independent aid agency. That would require Congressional support, which may not be forthcoming: the Senate has already pushed back against the administration’s proposed cuts to the USAID budget, suggesting the agency enjoys some bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. But reform of America’s overseas assistance programmes is long overdue, and should involve a lot more than revamped organisation charts.
Every presidential administration since the 1970s has initiated efforts to reorganize foreign aid. But calls for more significant reform are growing, with good reason. While America’s aid programme is the...Continue reading
ONE of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to try to introduce a version of the ban on Muslims entering America that he promised on the campaign trail. Judges stayed his executive order, which went through several iterations, until June 26th, when the Supreme Court allowed a modified version to proceed. According to data from the State Department, just 2,095 visas were issued in July to nationals of the countries effected (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen). That is 55% lower than the monthly average from 2012-16.
Yet that total differs only slightly from the monthly average of 2,526 new visas granted between March and June, a period when the courts had suspended the ban, and policy was formally the same as it was before Mr Trump took office. The State Department has not published figures on how many applications it received from the affected countries since the president announced the measure, so it is hard to know if the decline early in the year stemmed from consular...Continue reading
“SPERAMUS meliora resurget cineribus”: the Latin incantation, offered by a French Catholic priest after a fire nearly destroyed the city in 1805, is Detroit’s motto—“We hope that better things may rise from the ashes”. The once-great city, the “arsenal of democracy” during the second world war and home of the world’s most innovative manufacturers, has almost been ruined a second time. National interest in Detroit has waned since its bankruptcy proceedings, brought on by decades of mismanagement, ended in December 2014. Most tales of the city now take one of two tacks. Either Detroit remains mired in poverty and unemployment, its doom merely forestalled by a few years. Or the hipsters flooding in are, with each overwrought coffee contraption and jam-jar cocktail, returning the city to something like its former glory.
What both accounts miss is that Detroit seems on the point of doing something remarkable: re-electing a mayor whose singular achievement has...Continue reading
LESS than a month before the Supreme Court considers the legality of his executive order barring travel from six overwhelmingly Muslim countries, Donald Trump has handed a gift to those challenging the ban. Reacting to a bombing on the London underground on September 15th, Mr Trump first condemned the “loser terrorist” who perpetrated the attack, calling the bomber “sick and demented” and noting that potential miscreants “must be dealt with in a much tougher manner”. Then he brought the issue home: “The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific—but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!” In dealing with the likes of the Islamic State, he concluded, America “must be proactive & nasty!”
The logic of Mr Trump’s tweets is puzzling: he suggests that political correctness is to blame for the inadequate size, toughness and specificity of his March order, but he, after all, is the president who signed that order, and one of Mr Trump’s campaign pledges was never to...Continue reading
THIS is a busy time for the American Red Cross. In the days after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas and Louisiana one of America’s most popular charities put up tens of thousands of people in shelters and served millions of meals; its disaster workers have also been busy in Florida, helping the victims of Hurricane Irma.
Its prominent role in disaster relief has made the American Red Cross, which was established in 1881 by Clara Barton, an intrepid nurse from Massachusetts, one of the country’s best known charities. It is backed by President Donald Trump, who is reportedly donating $300,000 to the charity’s Harvey work, and by his predecessor, Barack Obama, who suggested on Twitter that Americans make a $10 donation to the organisation. Gail McGovern, who has been the charity’s chief executive for the past nine years, has described it as “a brand to die for”.
But since it bungled its response to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, the Red Cross has been a regular target of criticism from...Continue reading
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