OK, when you think about State Department types — if you think about them at all — chances are they’re…
On August 30, 1983, a Boeing 747, Korean Airlines 007 took off for Seoul from New York’s John F. Kennedy…
The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
It is difficult in this day and age to imagine any ambassador being on the cover of a major magazine…
Foggy Bottom, so called because its location alongside the Potomac made it susceptible to dense concentrations of fog and industrial smoke, refers not only…
The Transnistria region in Moldova is a Cold War relic. Along with Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan and South Ossetia in Georgia, it is…
In 1953, the Department of State removed John F. Melby from the Foreign Service because of his affair with acclaimed…
Find articles about diplomatic events from each day of the year Here’s a handy calendar of events linked to Moments…
Every November 10th, the United States Marine Corps celebrates its birthday with a traditional ball and cake-cutting ceremony. The first formal ball was…
Back to Diplomats and Diplomacy Radio Free Europe: An Insider’s View Veteran RFE insider J. F. Brown’s story of the…