The latest executive order by the president made clear that the billionaire’s cost-cutting team will have continuing ...

Towards the end of 2024, I was honoured by an invitation to speak on a panel at the annual African Philanthropy Forum Conference, to unpack the ways in which philanthropic organisations can accelerate ...

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Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the international community has sent nearly $11 billion in humanitarian ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

It violates statutes, undoes a century of civil service reform, and would derail government services. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on ...

It’s too difficult to hire and fire federal workers. A grand bargain is possible, but that’s not what Trump seeks.

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