Tuesday marked the last day for USAID, the foreign aid program created by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 with help from a prominent Mainer.

Emergency room doctors are concerned that if the “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, changes to Medicaid could leave more people uninsured and increase the mortality rate.

Mr. Stoll writes regularly at TheEditors.com. He was a founding partner in The New York Sun and, between 2002 and 2008, its managing editor. He is author of 'JFK, Conservative.' ...

Home / Opinion / Guest Columnists The Marshall Plan still inspires peace William Lambers Apr. 1, 2025 5:00 am, Updated: Apr. 4, 2025 2:59 pm Listen to the audio version of this article Advertisement ...

Marshall’s plan Marshall invited all European nations to participate in drafting a plan to first address the immediate humanitarian aid of Europe’s people, then rebuild its infrastructure.

The Marshall Plan used $13.3 billion in U.S. funds -- roughly $171 billion in today's dollars -- to rebuild war-torn Western Europe from 1948 to late 1951.

The tactic’s supreme exponent (the field marshal of the campaign, one might say) is Gordon Brown, the former UK prime minister, who called for at least five Marshall Plans within 15 years ...

Tonight, we’re looking at the Cold War Era Marshall Plan as the program celebrated its 76th anniversary this year. After the war, the United States worried that Russia wanted to take over the world.

It builds alliances, too. That was the thinking behind the Marshall Plan, the US aid package intended to restart shattered European economies in the aftermath of World War II.

As history shows, they were right. The backbone of the original Marshall Plan was the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), which Congress created to distribute the plan’s infusions of aid.