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Jul 28, 2025
When in doubt, blame the foreigners. Such is the case in Japan, undergoing a bout of what we’d in the U.S. call “yellow supremacy.” But is it more than an election...
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Jul 21, 2025
RIP—er, RIF, State Department as we knew you. One of my early duties during my over two and a half decades working for the State Department was to “support”...
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May 27, 2025
In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the...
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May 19, 2025
The secretary of state is taking serious steps to make the department work for the American people, not the world.
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Apr 30, 2025
If you had “State Department” on your DOGE bingo card as the next agency teed up, mark yourself a winner. But are tough times ahead for Foggy Bottom?
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Feb 4, 2025
Japan 2025 is a version of Japan 2000—albeit with fewer young people, many more old people, and a society that has no idea where it is going. Japan simply runs in place,...
