Editorials and analysis
September
August
June
- The slashing of Voice of America left a void Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is happy to fill (MSNBC, June 27, 2025)
- As U.S. dismantles Voice of America, rival powers hope to fill the void (The New York Times, June 24, 2025)
- Zombie version of VOA slain again (The News Guy - Steve Herman | Substack, June 20, 2025)
- Voice of America’s foreign language services are vital to global peace (The Hill, June 20, 2025)
- World needs voice from America, not China (Boston Herald, June 10, 2025)
- RSF decries Trump administration’s illegal USAGM firings (Reporters without Borders, June 4, 2025)
- A reformed Voice of America is worth saving (Washington Examiner, June 1, 2025)
May
April
- The fight to restore VOA continues. China hopes the agency loses (The Washington Post, April 24, 2025)
- Trump Is taking on America’s institutions but resistance Is building (The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2025)
- US-funded media like Voice of America must be saved and strengthened (The Hill, April 16, 2025)
- How shutting down VOA and RFA also leaves US policymakers in the dark (UnderReported China | Substack, April 15, 2025)
- Trump’s media crackdown endangers reporters worldwide (Foreign Policy, April 15, 2025)
- The power of international radio. You won’t miss it ’til it’s gone (Pre-fade Listen, April 14, 2025)
- Kari Lake moves to the State Department? Sorry, world (AZ Central, April 9, 2025)
- VOA an essential service (The Post Editorial Board, April 8, 2025)
- ‘Freedom Is my business’ (National Review, April 1, 2025)
March
- We need the Voice of America now more than ever (Foreign Policy, March 26, 2025)
- What the attempted dismantling of Voice of America means for press freedom in the US and the world (Poynter, March 26, 2025)
- VOA is easily the US's best, most influential, most peaceful export (Circleville (OH) Herald, March 24, 2025)
- VOA closure a setback for Tibetans (Taipei Times, March 24, 2025)
- Voice of America fights the Nazis a second time to stay alive (Dailykos, March 23, 2025)
- Mourning the Voice of America and all it stands for (The Hill, March 22, 2025)
- Trump move to eliminate VOA, RFE/RL ignores lessons of global power (Just Security, March 20, 2025)
- For a stronger dictatorship, simply gut the media (Reno News and Review, March 20, 2025)
- Fix VOA, don’t kill it (National Review, March 20, 2025)
- Press freedom coalition: Congress must protect USAGM’s independence (Reporters Without Borders (RSF), March 19, 2025)
- The Voice of America needs us to hope (Kate Woodsome, March 19, 2025)
- We must restore the US Agency for Global Media, not eliminate it (National Review, March 19, 2025)
- Stalin, Mao and Khomeini couldn’t quell freedom’s voice. But Trump did (The Washington Post, March 17, 2025)
- Congress must save the good journalists at VOA (The Hill, March 17, 2025)
- The Situation: Unilateral disarmament in the information wars (Lawfare, March 17, 2025)
- Foley Foundation statement on the closure of USAGM (Foley Foundation, March 17, 2025)
- Why Trump is ending US democracy promotion abroad (The Washington Post, March 16, 2025)
