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Cuts at State Department
The Washington Post reports on concerns about layoffs at the State Department: The Trump administrat…
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My Posting in Italy
When I arrived in Rome, my predecessor had been gone for some time. His assistant, who would b…
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Human Rights Reports
The Washington Post reports that as part of its attack on European countries for their democratic in…
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My Posting in Poland
As I was finishing my tour as the deputy director of the State Department’s “green” environmental of…
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Is Donald Trump the Manchurian Candidate?
In the New York Review of Books, Christopher Brown writes about what a “Manchurian Candidate&#…
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Bill Maher and Trump
I am disappointed in Bill Maher’s readout of his dinner with President Trump. Maher found Trump char…