Jesse Gutierrez, USAID officer at Mission Somalia, says it best himself: "I had slept on the floor, been homeless, used subpar health facilities, and
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Hungary, a self-described illiberal democracy. Neighboring Slovakia, with a snap election coming in September. Will Slovakia elect the next Orban?
The news fist broke weeks ago but now the human stakes have reached the front pages, with thousands of Israelis taken to the streets.
Margaret Riccardelli, an airline employee in her 40s, stumbled into the foreign service thinking it would be great to serve in Italy.
The Central African Republic: a vulnerable democracy with a weak president, failed by the West.
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
Pedro Castillo, recently ousted in Peru, is the latest of a succession of Peruvian presidents to be jailed or disgraced.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, opened hot dog stands upon his release from Russian prison as a young man.
Who coined that term anyway? It's true, there have been insults and lots of them. Why?
24 hours news TV totally changed the State Department comms staple, the cable. Pete hopped on the “wireless” to save a democracy and Amb.
By listener request, Pete and Laura have binged the Netflix show The Diplomat. Pete answers: How real is it?
In last Sunday’s election, President Erdogan received almost half of the vote, but not enough to be the winner - yet. How does he hold onto powe
Say what? "Reforms?" Or simply a way for Netanyahu to skirt the law and consolidate power?
Today we are reposting one of our most informative episodes on China, which Laura often thinks of when analyzing today's global news: Why does t
Wait a sec! Diplomacy is between countries, right? So why does State have a whole office for City and State Diplomacy?
On April 26, President Biden will host the second state dinner of his presidency, with President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea.