As a teenage daughter of a Foreign Service Officer who moved his family from country to country every so often,…
It is a commonly held belief that while abroad as a U.S. citizen, the American government and its embassy will…
Russia’s tumultuous history is replete with backstabbing — sometimes literal — where the powerful would seek their vengeance with a…
It is impossible to understand the War in Afghanistan, now the longest war in American history, much less the motives…
For much of the 20th century, Haiti was under the control of the Duvalier family, headed by Francois “Papa Doc”…
For most of the 1980s, Panama was controlled by one man — General Manuel Noriega, who had been trained by…
Ask any five people on an American college campus or maybe even on the streets of any major city, to…
For more than 30 years, it has been a political force in Lebanon and beyond, at times praised for its…
Johnny Young, who served in the Foreign Service from 1967 to 2005, was born into abject poverty in the Deep…
The ongoing political tumult in Yemen threatens to undermine the country as well as American counterterrorism efforts in the region.…