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John Kerry Secretary of State

Giving Girls a Chance at a Real Future With Real Choices

Jennifer Redner | Posted 05.20.2013 | Impact
Jennifer Redner

As a key player in shaping global development priorities -- priorities that include education, health care, food security, economic empowerment and ending violence against women and girls -- the United States has an important role in ending early and forced marriage worldwide.

Kerry and Hagel: An Interm Report

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.20.2013 | World
Michael Brenner

John Kerry and Chuck Hagel have been at the helm of American foreign and security policy for some months now. Much was expected from new faces, new approaches and -- perhaps -- some new thinking. How are they doing?

The Great Game in Syria

Ali Younes | Posted 05.09.2013 | World
Ali Younes

The visit by U.S. secretary of state John Kerry to Russia earlier this week gave hope that an imminent diplomatic breakthrough in Syria is on the horizon.

American Diplomacy Rises Once Again in Northeast Asia

Donald Gross | Posted 04.30.2013 | World
Donald Gross

The governments of countries most endangered by Pyongyang are now asking a critical question: What to do? Fortunately, the answer is clear.

Who Owns Haiti's Future?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.26.2013 | Impact
Georgianne Nienaber

Three years and $6 billon later, we remain with the same questions and a very troubling report about USAID from CEPR. The big question remains. Who is capable of charting the way forward for Haiti?

Xi Jinping's First Great Test

Stanley Weiss | Posted 04.18.2013 | World
Stanley Weiss

WASHINGTON--In Washington, D.C. today, the White House was taken over by North Korean terrorists. With the help of a rogue Secret Service agent, the P...

WATCH: John Kerry Makes Unforgivable Boston Gaffe

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

Secretary of State John Kerry -- who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013 -- made a major gaffe Thursday when he botched the ...

Kerry: Obama Administration Making Progress On Benghazi Attackers

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, the Obama administration on Wednesday insisted that it was ma...

Kerry Urged To Address Human Rights Concerns In China

AP | Posted 04.12.2013 | World

BEIJING -- Human rights groups are urging U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to raise the ill-treatment of dissidents and other rights concerns during...

Why Canada Owed Kerry A Case Of Molson

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 04.11.2013 | World

LONDON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry now has a case of beer to quench his thirst as he continues a 10-day trip through the Middle East, E...

Kerry Meets With Syrian Opposition

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 04.10.2013 | World

LONDON -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Syrian opposition leaders and Russia's top diplomat a day after saying the U.S. could soo...

More Work to Bring War Criminals to Justice

John Kerry | Posted 04.03.2013 | World
John Kerry

Through the expansion of the War Crimes Rewards Program, the Department of State is offering up to $5 million for information that leads to the arrest, transfer, and conviction of the top three leaders of the LRA: Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo, and Dominic Ongwen.

An Open Letter to Secretary Kerry

Michael Kaiser | Posted 03.25.2013 | Arts
Michael Kaiser

While you have access, no doubt, to a wealth of advice and knowledge, I humbly suggest that you fully exploit the expertise of your arts community and the power of cultural diplomacy.

The Daily Szep -- Kerry's World

Paul Szep | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Paul Szep

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Iran, Nukes and Jesus

Shayne Lee | Posted 05.12.2013 | World
Shayne Lee

More profound than the U.S. and Israel's lack of rational legality and absence of moral authority, is their failure to provide cogent evidence that a nuclear Iran poses an existential threat to Israel or any other nation.

Aww! John Kerry Meets Some Babies

Posted 02.27.2013 | Politics

Secretary of State John Kerry is on his first overseas trip in his new role. He made a stop in Paris on Wednesday, where he met with U.S. embassy staf...

Joshua Hersh

Kerry Looks To Avoid Major Diplomatic Embarrassment

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.26.2013 | World

WASHINGTON -- Top Syrian opposition figures are reportedly considering dropping their boycott of a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry later th...

What Will Kerry Do About Christian Persecution in China?

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.23.2013 | World
Ken Blackwell

With the single exception of granting asylum to the blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, the Obama administration's record on Christian persecution in China has been one largely of indifference.

A Recovering Politician's Jeffersonian Vision

Ryan Filkil | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics
Ryan Filkil

On Wednesday morning at the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson's hallowed Grounds, John Kerry gave his first speech as Secretary of State. He began by asking, "Why Cabell Hall instead of Kabul?"

Kerry To Make First Trip As Secretary Of State Next Week

AP | By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 04.21.2013 | World

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry will bypass Israel on his first official trip to the Middle East, U.S. officials said Tuesday as the...

Kerry: 'Deeply Distressed'

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 04.10.2013 | World

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that the United States is evaluating new options to halt Syria's civil war, but he refuse...

John Kerry, Male Secretary

Marie Woolf | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics
Marie Woolf

The 94-3 Senate vote confirming John Kerry as our new Secretary of State is, in that regard, a remarkably unifying, indeed affirming, action as I see it. Not a thing to do with gender, race, God, age or political party: simply the most qualified American for the job.

A Word on Hillary Clinton and John Kerry

Elmar Brok | Posted 04.09.2013 | World
Elmar Brok

She has always been aware of the fact that the joint strengths of the U.S. and the EU -- the two biggest economic powers -- should also be used in order to achieve common goals in the foreign and security policy fields.

Republican Could Rock Race To Replace Kerry

Reuters | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics

By Scott Malone BOSTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts state representative said he will announce on Tuesday whether he will becom...

Dear John Kerry (And Others), Don't Refer To Hillary By Her Heels

Emma Gray | Posted 04.06.2013 | Women
Emma Gray

Kerry may have meant his comment with the best of intentions, this seems like the appropriate time to demand a moratorium on all future conflation of the words "heels" and/or "stilettos" with the words "female," "woman" or "women."