Last week, the U.S. Foreign Service — the 10,000+ diplomats who staff our embassies, conduct foreign policy, and manage our international relationships — fired 200 employees. It was the latest of several rounds of mass layoffs at the Service, and a key component of the State Department’s overhaul, which it announced in April, accompanied by a series of posters and rousing edits charging citizens to “Be the Face of America.”
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