Syrian Diplomat Forced To Leave William Howard Taft House
WASHINGTON -- While the intricacies of international diplomacy might be slow and boring, Tuesday's coordinated action by the State Department to expel...
WASHINGTON -- While the intricacies of international diplomacy might be slow and boring, Tuesday's coordinated action by the State Department to expel...
Christopher Holshek | Posted 05.25.2012
We should respect each other's commitment to community and country. There is no reason why we cannot stand up for all the fallen, so that Memorial Day will honor all those who gave their lives in the service of their neighbors as well as their nation.
AP | Posted 05.19.2012
CAMP DAVID, Md. -- The White House has welcomed the arrangement allowing a blind Chinese activist to leave Beijing and fly to the United States with h...
Peter Van Buren | Posted 05.17.2012
(For those joining our story already in progress, here's the Twitter-length summary: I've worked for the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer...
Peter Van Buren | Posted 05.14.2012
The New York Times reports that the State Department, in the face of massive costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place...
New York Times | Posted 05.13.2012
BAGHDAD — In the face of spiraling costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, the State Department has slashed — a...
Peter Van Buren | Posted 05.10.2012
It was only after my book came out that State decided I could not work there. Something vague about not suddenly having judgement anymore, like losing one's mojo I guess.
Sen. Chris Coons | Posted 05.10.2012
Internet freedom -- the freedom to exchange thought, opinion, expression, and association to meet political, social, education, or religious objectives -- should not be restricted for law-abiding citizens in the United States or anywhere in the world.
AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 05.10.2012
TRENTON, N.J. — While researching his epic series on Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro found himself again and again calling upon Nicholas deB. Katzen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 05.07.2012
In February of 2011, a few days after a surprising popular revolt brought down the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-I...
Peter Van Buren | Posted 05.07.2012
Why does the State Department consistently make poor decisions? Everyone makes mistakes, but what we have here is a long, long litany of obvious bad decisions, so obviously bad one cannot help but wonder how smart people made them.
Perry Yeatman | Posted 05.01.2012
When it comes to multi-stakeholder partnerships, knowing what YOU want is the right starting point. But even that isn't enough to succeed. Here are five more lessons we've learned from our work that might be helpful.
Maura O'Neill | Posted 04.30.2012
If a boat is financial capital, and deals are the fish, investors want to be floating in a river where the fish are jumping.
Peter Van Buren | Posted 04.24.2012
When I faced a crisis of conscience, to tell what I knew because it needed to be told, coming to realize I was risking at the least my job if not jail, I remembered the Pentagon Papers from 1971 you risked the same and more to release.
John Brown | Posted 04.24.2012
"Any communications strategy plays second to reality. So as long as deaths from misplaced drone attacks, atrocities by soldiers and videos of Abu Ghraib exist, you are not going to fool anyone regardless of how many tweets you send out."
Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.23.2012
As the TSA moves toward what it calls an "intelligence-driven, risk-based approach to security," maybe it's worth asking how intelligent some of its new systems really are.
Roshanak Taghavi | Posted 04.20.2012
Have you ever wondered how we'll find the next Steve Jobs?
Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 04.17.2012
Last June, while Yonas Fikre was visiting the United Arab Emirates, the Muslim American from Portland, Oregon was suddenly arrested and detained by E...
Sir Peter Westmacott | Posted 04.13.2012
The new U.S./U.K. Defence Trade Cooperation treaty ensures that Britain and America can share our world-class defence capabilities more efficiently and more effectively.
AP | ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON | Posted 04.12.2012
RICHMOND, Va. — Enacting a law that bars doctors from discussing gun safety with their patients. Slicing the "f-word" from a designated free-spe...
Richard Dickerson | Posted 04.10.2012
When you constantly pick the same people with similar backgrounds to serve and lead, it's hard for new and different ideas to be considered -- or even discussed. There is a value to different perspectives that come from different experiences, including a minority experience.
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.05.2012
By R. Jeffrey Smith, iWatch NewsIn 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosn...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 03.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- The State Department says it has rejected applications from two senior Cuban diplomats to travel to New York to take part in a panel dis...
William Astore | Posted 05.21.2012
Peter Van Buren's story is a cautionary tale of waste, mismanagement, and hubris, one that should serve to discourage (or at least to inform) current efforts in Afghanistan.
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR and MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.14.2012
JACKSON, Miss. — Despite dozens of allegations of neglect and sexual abuse over the years, the U.S. State Department abandoned a plan to require...
The Huffington Post | Michael Grass | Posted 05.29.2012