Ideological screenings are just the beginning of the State Department’s political tests for new foreign service officers, who ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the Cold War.

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The grandson of one secretary of state and the nephew of another was a giant of mid-twentieth century U.S. foreign policy.

The Washington Post, formerly one of the great newspapers of the United States, now seems to be heading into a slow death spiral. This is not good for the paper, but it is worse for democracy and an ...

How do you feel about a pet that you can't pet? NPR's Scott Simon talks to writer Anne Fadiman about her new collection of essays, "Frog And Other Essays." Anne Fadiman's new book of essays take on ...

BERLIN—Few cities are more emblematic of the postwar trans-Atlantic alliance than the German capital. In 1963, John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech here promising ...

“I give you my solemn warning that under the present trend, the next world war is inevitable,” declared the French military leader Ferdinand Foch. It was 1921, and Foch, the commander in chief of the ...

Andy Baker’s only moment in the spotlight came by accident — when, in March, Vice President JD Vance named him as his point-person in the administration’s infamous leaked group chat about the Houthi ...

Philanthropies are a small but increasingly important part of global aid, especially as Western government funding continues ...

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