Will US security officials ever fix their broken spy catching system?
Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
The State Department asked Twitter to delay a "critical network upgrade" scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use th...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The State Department this week asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown of its service to keep information flowin...
Haaretz | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Dennis Ross, who most recently served as a special State Department envoy to Iran, will abruptly be relieved of his duties, sources in Washington told...
Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
The son of the founder of the Peace Corps leading our march was one of the most powerful acts of political symbolism I have ever seen.
Posted 07.14.2009 | Politics
From the State Department's YouTube channel: "Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy and State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack discuss ...
The Plum Line | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
I noted here yesterday that at a press conference, Senator Lindsey Graham disclosed that Hillary Clinton had privately confided to him that she worrie...
Michael Jones | Posted 07.11.2009 | Chicago
Terry Barnich volunteered to serve his country. He went to Iraq. Not as a soldier, but as part of the State Department, to help Iraq become a successful democracy.
The Independent | Stephen Foley | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
He is said to have been the subject of some cartoonish plots over the years, from poisoned ice cream, mines disguised as sea shells and, of course, ex...
Craig Newmark | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
In Pakistan's Swat Valley, nearly 2.4 million people have fled their homes after rejecting the violence of the Taliban, and hundreds of thousands now...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
Last September, the Obama campaign sent out a text message urging recipients to watch one of the presidential debates on CNN (even though it was airin...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
Add Harold Koh to the list of Obama nominees whom Republicans have decided to slow walk to confirmation. At least one senator is, anonymously, holding...
Adriana Dunn | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
This event features an half-dozen speakers, with expertise in subjects ranging from market-based solutions for global poverty to the economic and social effects of the Internet and more,
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
How involved was the United States State Department in the destabilization of the Kivu provinces in eastern DRC? Did our State Department officials become "terrorists" in the eyes of a revolutionary movement in Congo?
Robert Naiman | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
The Obama Administration has been praised and vilified for its legendary caution, typically depending on whether the speaker supports or opposes the d...
John Brown | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
What is public diplomacy? The term, coined in the mid-1960s covers programs ranging from the Fulbright educational exchange to information about US foreign policy directed to overseas audiences.
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — A roadside bomb blasted a U.S. convoy west of Baghdad, killing three Americans, including a top reconstruction official who once heade...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will soon announce that gay American diplomats will be given benefits similar to those th...
Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
This bold new Peace Corps needs a bold new leader with the initiative, energy and decisiveness to turn the organization from a child of the Sixties until a vibrant creature of the 21st century.
Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Paul Farmer has shown that with commitment and smart use of resources, international development programs can work--can change lives and make human rights into human realities.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
I still get emails, and a smattering of sore winner comments, that Secretary Clinton will be the undoing of President Obama. Hoping ain't gettin'. Hasn't happened yet.
BBC | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Iran remains the "most active state sponsor of terrorism" in the world, a report by the US state department says....
Haaretz | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
Saudi Arabia demanded on Thursday that the U.S. State Department retract a claim that King Abdullah met Israel's president last year, in a rare public...
Gordon Adams | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
The first 100 days of the Obama administration have been promising, but to paraphrase Death of a Salesman, 'Attention must [continue to] be paid.'"
Frank Naif | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics