Sometimes it just ain’t easy working for the State Department. If you go through the lengthy history of the Foreign Service…
Imagine what Europe would be like today if Belarusian strongman Aleksandr Lukashenka were able to threaten his neighbors with nuclear…
On August 30, 1983, a Boeing 747, Korean Airlines 007 took off for Seoul from New York’s John F. Kennedy…
It is difficult in this day and age to imagine any ambassador being on the cover of a major magazine…
The United States Department of State is not the monolithic entity it may at first appear to be. The lack…
During the 1950’s hundreds of government employees, entertainers, educators, and union activists were accused of being communists by Senator Joseph…
The Olympic Games, despite their lofty ideals, have since their inception in ancient Greece intertwined the best of athletic competition…
Oliver Platt is a talented character actor who has appeared in major blockbusters (X-Men: First Class), critically acclaimed TV series…
Pakistan after independence was a strange creation: the capital, Islamabad, and most of the power were located in the west…
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) marked a turning point in relations between the U.S. and the USSR. Signed in December 1987 by President Ronald…