Prologue

When USAID suddenly stopped all foreign assistance without warning or a transition plan, it sent people all over the world scrambling.

USAID was founded in 1961.

Two Americans moved to Eswatini when that country was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic.

Our producer Zoe Chace goes to Fairview Heights, Illinois, where Planned Parenthood has opened a massive new abortion clinic just across the river from Missouri.

Zoe Chace spends time with a lawmaker in Missouri on the day Roe fell who’d worked her whole life for this moment and can’t believe it’s really here.

Producer Zoe Chace spends time with two brothers in Hungary, trying to win an election that’s basically impossible for them to win.