If you're not using your phone to take pictures of cute animals, you are obviously doing it wrong!

Here it is as a gift article with no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.