The unusually strong response to Stephanie Kinney’s piece on the lack of core values within the Foreign Service — by far…
This article first appeared in the May 2013 edition of the Foreign Service Journal. In it, Susan R. Johnson, the…
The Foreign Service has undergone major reforms and tinkering over the past century, so much so that people often joked…
Oliver Platt is a talented character actor who has appeared in major blockbusters (X-Men: First Class), critically acclaimed TV series…
On December 21, 1988, Pan American flight 103 flying from London Heathrow to JFK Airport in New York exploded over…
József Mindszenty was a Roman Catholic cardinal ordained shortly after World War II who staunchly resisted the fascist and later…
On November 1st, 1952 the United States detonated the world’s first hydrogen bomb on a large atoll called Eniwetok in…
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba were frozen in time for more than 50 years. After the U.S. formally severed…
U.S. relations with Moscow through the decades have been problematic at best while the embassy itself has been the subject…
On August 30, 1971, Alfred Erdos murdered his assistant, Donald Leahy, at the small American embassy in Equatorial Guinea. Delusional…