Update on Paul Farmer and USAID from Kristof #
So I hear it’s final: Dr. Paul Farmer will not run USAID, after all. … I’m not exactly sure what went wrong, but I think the vetters had reservations about things he had said, and he developed reservations about whether he could do more good inside government or outside. I still think the proper response is to throw the vetters overboard — if a saint like Farmer can’t get through, who can? — but in the meantime we need an administrator for USAID.
