Continuous efforts to silence independent press and civil society voices signal that autocrats fear strong non-governmental institutions.
The USAID funding freeze poses significant challenges to the development and humanitarian sectors in East Africa.
The sudden freeze of U.S. aid has caused harm to independent Ukrainian journalism on par with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The freezing of U.S. aid will undoubtedly have far-reaching economic consequences.
[A]n increasing number of countries are turning away from Washington in their search for new centers of power.
Arms deliveries cannot be the only response to this conflict; they only make sense if they lead ... to a fair and stable solution.
[T]he Republican Party leadership ultimately surrendered and voted for a package that included no real concessions.
[T]he impression is growing that the U.S. has lost control on the international stage:
[O]ne gets the impression that a sense of reality has temporarily prevailed in U.S. Congress.
America will turn completely inward before the election in November.
[T]he Old World ... slowly begins to realize that, in the future, it can only rely on itself.