Consular officer Alan Eaton helped scores of Afghans at risk evacuate from Kabul, working from inside the Abbey Gate the airport at exactly...
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People’s lives are at stake in the most urgent way. Policy is a macro-level thing, and utterly necessary. But what about...
For Pride Month (belatedly posted due to events in Afghanistan and our coverage of those), Austin Richey-Allen recounts his story of gender...
Eric Rubin sums it up with one word. If we want to be successful in our diplomacy, we need to adopt a position of humility with...
Wouldn’t we all like to know. She’s alive, at least. Bad luck becomes good luck as she is turned away on her way to...
Or a traitor, anyway. In an eerily quiet region during the Vietnam war, from a banana grove in the middle of the night, Lionel...
The Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt – we know about these places. But Bahrain is almost never in the news. What is its geopolitical...
Amb. Ryan Crocker, Middle East expert, explains the value of Foreign Service Nationals and brings it all home with a story of the day that...
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...
Consular officer Kate Canavan on the many things that can go wrong in Tijuana. Two air traffic controllers, fired for going on strike, go...
Communism drives immigration decisions, 1956. Hank Cohen is in love. It’s his first tour, and he’s in Paris. The Soviets invade...
It is the 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his henchman Roy Cohn target and humiliate our diplomats for accurately reporting an eventual...