Pete and Laura close the year with reflections on the diplomatic successes in 2023 that helped create a more peaceful and sustainable world.
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January 10, 2024
Cybercrime has many names but what, actually, is it? Jim Lewis, former Foreign Service Officer, now Senior Vice President and Director of the
November 2, 2023
Admiral Mike LeFever and Roderick Jones's new book End Game First talks about collaborating with diplomats to rebuild Pakistan after the 2005 earth
October 27, 2023
Says Richard Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, his job is to help create "the most effective, capable, inclusive, diverse
October 19, 2023
The atrocities are breathtaking. But once Israel starts picking up the bodies in the smoking rubble of whatever is left of Gaza, then what?
October 12, 2023
How did Robert Menendez fall so hard? A suspected foreign agent? Hiding gold bullion?
October 5, 2023
Major General Spider Marks, formerly head of military intelligence for Korea, opines on Putin's recent meeting with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.
September 28, 2023
No union is perfect, but it helps to try. Authoritarians worldwide exploit their citizens' need for public safety to gain and hold power.
September 21, 2023
The basis of the International Criminal Court is a treaty, written in part by the United States and signed by 123 countries worldwide.
September 14, 2023
BRICS, the economic alliance of nonwestern powers, just met in Johannesburg, with Putin conspicuously disinvited. Why?
September 7, 2023
Cambodia just "elected" another term for the ruling party, allowing the 38-year dictator Hun Sen to maintain dynastic rule for many years to come.
August 31, 2023
Following the unprecedented executive order by the Biden administration limiting US investment in Chinese tech companies, Cathy Novelli, veteran US di
August 24, 2023
Jesse Gutierrez, USAID officer at Mission Somalia, says it best himself: "I had slept on the floor, been homeless, used subpar health facilities, and
August 17, 2023
Hungary, a self-described illiberal democracy. Neighboring Slovakia, with a snap election coming in September. Will Slovakia elect the next Orban?
August 11, 2023
The news fist broke weeks ago but now the human stakes have reached the front pages, with thousands of Israelis taken to the streets.
July 27, 2023
Margaret Riccardelli, an airline employee in her 40s, stumbled into the foreign service thinking it would be great to serve in Italy.
July 21, 2023
The Central African Republic: a vulnerable democracy with a weak president, failed by the West.
July 13, 2023
Alan Eaton helps us appreciate exactly where high level policy meets the work of diplomats on the ground as he works from a Saudi military vessel to e