The Last Mile with USAID
The Last Mile Editorial Desk, The Last Mile with USAIDThis publication reminds us why democracy, development, and humanitarian work are still worth fighting for, and why the last mile belongs to us, not to them.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Why We Don’t Let Trolls on the Bridge
Author-created illustration.
On June 1, 2026, USAID’s Office of Inspector General published a formal evaluation of the agency’s Sudan humanitarian portfolio. The document is titled Sudan: USAID Did Not Continuously Monitor Humanitarian Ass...
The Preorder and the Mass Grave
A girl reads USAID sanitation poster in rural India. The agency that put it there no longer exists. The preorder of fifty copies will not replace it.
A Response to “Beyond USAID” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
On July 1, 2025,...
A Letter Against the Lie
I thought the ambassador was being kind.
That was the mistake I carried out of the building with me.
The day USAID ended for me, I turned in the things that proved I had belonged there. Badge. Key card. Computer paperwork. The emergency r...
Three Feet Away
by a former USAID Foreign Service Officer
The State Department officer sat three feet from me.
We had worked together for over two years by then. Our families had met. We had been to each other’s homes. We had done what you do at o...
They Know What We Are. Do We?
They already know what we are.
The activist in Kampala stopped refreshing the funding portal in March 2025. She knows. The man in Mombasa who found other arrangements, because he had no choice, knows. Forty-two countries received stop-work...
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