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What's Behind the GOP's Disinformation Machine?

How to Stop Trump From Retaliating Against Whistleblowers

Selling America's Ambassadorships

The GOP's Waiting for Godot Moment

Heroes of the Foreign Service

Contributing to the Public Discourse Through Washington Monthly

The "Deep State" Strikes Back

Trump, Rudy, Ukraine and Scapegoats: The Character Assassination of Public Servants

The Guns of Autumn: Stumbling Toward Armageddon

Guilt of a Meritocrat: The Need to Expand the American Dream

America's Got Talent: Diplomacy as Amateur Talent Show In Trump World

The Lessons of Theodore Roosevelt: How to Escape Our Second Gilded Age

Another U.S. Diplomat Resigns in Protest Over Trump

The Worst Friend Israel Ever Had

An American Tale: What Really Happened to Jeffrey Epstein

Foreign Service Officer Resigns Rather Than Continue to Serve Under Trump

The Cost of Trump's War on the Intelligence Community

How to Ruin Your Reputation and Become a Laughing Stock Serving Under Donald Trump

The U.S.-British Special Relationship Is Wounded, But Not Dead

My Role in Defending an Ultra-Secret Government Site from "Storm Area 51"

Elizabeth Warren's Revolutionary Proposal to End the Selling of Ambassadorships

At Last! One Presidential Candidate Has a Plan to Revitalize U.S. Diplomacy & the State Department

How Populist Strongmen Wreck Diplomacy and Foreign Ministries: Now It's Our Turn

The Conscience of a Diplomat: When It's OK to Buck Orders

What Should Diplomats Do When the President's Policies Are Beyond the Pale?

State Department in Crisis? - A Foreign Policy Based on Whim, Driven By Theology and Implemented By Hacks

Is William Barr America's Nikolai Krylenko?

What Leon Redbone Told Us About the American Soul

When Exactly Did Rudolph Giuliani Sell His Soul to the Devil?

How Will History Judge the Republican Party?

A Word on Richard Holbrooke: One Doesn't Need to Be a Prick to Get to the Top

The Pale Hacker Ends His Ecuadorean Interlude: Time for Assange to Face Justice

National Security Clearances Are No Joke: Trump & Minions Must Be Held Accountable

Trump is a Russian Asset & Here's Why

How to Save the International Order from Trumpism

College and Class: Observations from a First Generation Grad

A Clear and Present Danger to U.S. National Security: Donald Trump

The Witch Hunt Nabs Another Warlock: Angling for Pardons

U.S. - Venezuela: The Race to the Bottom for Most Dysfunctional Banana Republic

Lifting of Russia Sanctions: Could It Be -- Putin?!

When Interpreters Get Caught Up in Politics

A Conversation Between Donald Trump and his Russian Handler, Part VI: Getting Putin-Propaganda Right