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Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana on the midterms, the US, and the worldView quoted post on X
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Tim Hirschel-Burns
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Global development policy. Past: @YaleLawSch, 🇧🇯. Views mine. Subscribe to my Substack: timhirschelburns.substack.com
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The "Democrats should not bring back USAID" tweet that ruffled some feathers is, as I understand it upon further elaboration, an argument that *for the next two years* Congress should focus on funding multilateral financial institutions rather than a hollowed out USAID
Two days ago I said we should not bring back USAID. Here is what to do instead, at least in the short run, until we have a new system in place--go big on the multilaterals who have the capacity to implement effective programs, especially @worldbank's IDA.View quoted post on X
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Someone told me that I should repost this for people like them who were too busy looking at memes last week and only now can get around to reading it.
So here you go! (And it's actually even more optimistic than you might be already, so read it!) timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/if-its-going…
So here you go! (And it's actually even more optimistic than you might be already, so read it!) timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/if-its-going…
timhirschelburns.substack.com If it’s going to happen, it will be in 2029 Plan your life accordingly Even for people who follow politics closely, I'm not sure it has fully sunk in how much everything revolves around 2029.View quoted post on X
For any policy dream you have, if it's going to happen, it will be in 2029/30. We should all be planning accordingly.
I wrote about why:
Lots of ppl have focused in on voters citing corruption as a top priority, but I do wonder how much it’s about corruption narrowly defined (Trump admin conflicts of interest, shady deals etc) vs “corruption” capturing a generalized sense that the government works for the powerful
Abdul hadn’t quite gotten to an affirmative vision for foreign policy yet. He did now and absolutely nailed it.
For those of us who want a foreign policy that lives up to our values and makes people safer everywhere, this is how you do it
For those of us who want a foreign policy that lives up to our values and makes people safer everywhere, this is how you do it
My vision for diplomacy and USAID.View quoted post on X
