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Dissent and Its Consequences

What do you do if you have a severe crisis of conscience over a policy that you cannot support?...

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Barbados Agreement - Venezuela and the US

Ambassador Larry Gambiner joins us to discuss a new deal in which President Maduro of Venezuela...

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What's Your Exit Strategy?

Admiral Mike LeFever and Roderick Jones's new book End Game First talks about collaborating with...

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Problems Without Passports

Says Richard Verma, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, his job is to help...

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Permanent Rage: Palestine and Israel

The atrocities are breathtaking.  But once Israel starts picking up the bodies in the smoking...

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Senñor Menendez Goes to Washington

How did Robert Menendez fall so hard?  A suspected foreign agent?  Hiding gold bullion?  Pete and...

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Putin, North Korea, and Why Democracies Last 250 Years

Major General Spider Marks, formerly head of military intelligence for Korea, opines on Putin's...

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A "More Perfect" Union

No union is perfect, but it helps to try. Authoritarians worldwide exploit their citizens' need...

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Lawfare and the International Criminal Court

The basis of the International Criminal Court is a treaty, written in part by the United States...

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Putin: Indicted War Criminal

BRICS, the economic alliance of nonwestern powers, just met in Johannesburg, with Putin...

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A Dictator, An Election, and US Interests

Cambodia just "elected" another term for the ruling party, allowing the 38-year dictator Hun Sen...

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China, National Security and Our Economy

Following the unprecedented executive order by the Biden administration limiting US investment in...

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From Deportee to AID

Jesse Gutierrez, USAID officer at Mission Somalia, says it best himself: "I had slept on the...

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Selective Hypocrisy

Hungary, a self-described illiberal democracy. Neighboring Slovakia, with a snap election coming...

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Israel "Reforms"

The news fist broke weeks ago but now the human stakes have reached the front pages, with...

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Now's the Time in Ukraine - Gen. Spider Marks

Ukraine: a nation fighting for its life.  Russia's military: leaderless, feckless, inept, but...

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Go For It!

Margaret Riccardelli, an airline employee in her 40s, stumbled into the foreign service thinking...

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Wagner's Ascent to Control in Central Africa

The Central African Republic: a vulnerable democracy with a weak president, failed by the West....

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The Stars Over the Red Sea

Alan Eaton helps us appreciate exactly where high level policy meets the work of diplomats on the...

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Party on John’s Gunboat! Happy Fourth!

Why don’t the Panamanians hate us? We sliced their country in two to build the Panama Canal,...

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