Dr. Anthony Fauci announced recently that he will leave government this coming December. Though Fauci has done groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS, worked under eight presidential administration, the Nati

The professional competitive civil service is often under attack, with many criticizing the federal workforce as just paper pushers or members of a nefarious “Deep State.” But, the import of the profe

We see the evidence of the climate crisis in many ways, from flooding in Pakistan to the droughts and wildfires in the American west. Congress and the Biden administration have promised to enact and a

Recently, President Joe Biden announced the U.S. Department of Education will cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for Pell Grant recipients and up to $10,000 for non-Pell Grant recipients. The announ

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control announced new guidelines regarding  COVID-19 safety rules. According to the White House’s Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, agencies can now pause

In September of last year, President Joe Biden put forward Executive Order 14042, which put in place a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Last week, however, a court partially lifted th

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring 100,000 new cases each week in the U.S. and the disease has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Earlier this month, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the

The recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act has provisions in it to hire tens of thousands of new IRS employees over the next decade. Supporters of the plan have called the surge necessary to restore

, a group of far-right militia members invaded the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in eastern Oregon. The group occupied the site for nearly six weeks before law enforcement made arrests

Voice of America broadcasts in dozens of languages to millions of people worldwide. As an arm of American diplomacy and as a journalistic enterprise, VOA has to thread a very complex and specific need