August 27, 2021
Wouldn't we all like to know.  She's alive, at least.
August 20, 2021
People's lives are at stake in the most urgent way.  Policy is a macro-level thing, and utterly necessary.
August 12, 2021
Or a traitor, anyway.
August 5, 2021
The Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt – we know about these places. But Bahrain is almost never in the news.
July 23, 2021
HT, an Afghan interpreter who worked alongside US forces and has been denied a visa to come to the United States explains how he served, who in his fa
July 15, 2021
Consular officer Kate Canavan on the many things that can go wrong in Tijuana.
July 10, 2021
Communism drives immigration decisions, 1956. Hank Cohen is in love. It’s his first tour, and he’s in Paris.
June 30, 2021
It is the 1950s.
June 24, 2021
A social worker by profession, Bonnie Miller traveled the world with her spouse Ambassador Tom Miller and created the first-ever course in Psycho
June 16, 2021
Trick Question: What happened in Yalta in 1945?  Probably more than you think!
June 12, 2021
Pete sends Phil Chicola to guerrilla country to investigate the deaths of American linguist missionaries, and both Pete and Phil are accused of negoti
June 4, 2021
Phil Shull is back, this time connecting our earlier discussion of Chinese culture to practical business and policy challenges faced by Westerners doi
May 28, 2021
Why does the West find China so confounding in matters of business and diplomacy?
May 20, 2021
What do 840 people, 96 hours, a hamster, a newborn, a bag of Doritos and a husband expecting to fly first class all add up to?
May 13, 2021
Dennis Jett, recidivist American Diplomat guest, regales and opines on hostage-taking in Peru, the Cuban missile crisis, the JFK assassination, and (d
May 6, 2021
In our third of three episodes on the assassination of JFK, we learn what the eminently reasonable Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former CIA operations officer,
April 29, 2021
Why did her diplomat father take his own life? Her mother kept her in the dark. Why? To protect her? From what?
April 22, 2021
Charles Thomas had intel, valuable intel, on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
April 15, 2021
Ambassador Jim Gadsen and mid-career officer Paloma Gonzalez share their stories of diversity and inclusion, one a Black man whose career was launched