List of U.S. State Department articles
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at a press conference in Myanmar on Nov. 15, 2017. (Aung Htet/AFP/Getty Images) Tillerson Finally Brands Myanmar Crisis ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Beyond harsh words, Washington hasn’t meted out punishment on Myanmar yet.
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Afghan security personnel destroy an illegal poppy crop in the Surkh Rod district of eastern Nangarhar province on Apr. 5. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) Kill All the Poppies
There’s no way to ever win against the Taliban if the heroin trade is left to flourish.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department on November 20, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rex Tillerson Is Underrated
A revisionist assessment of the Trump administration’s beleaguered Secretary of State.
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Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 28, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images) Lawmakers Scold State Department for Reportedly Slashing Disability Support for Diplomats’ Children
Funds for therapy and education are reportedly cut.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) talks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Oct. 30, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Lawmakers Slam Tillerson’s Bungled State Department Reforms
There's growing concern on the Hill that the secretary of state is mangling American diplomacy.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) talks with reporters in Washington D.C. on Nov. 3, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Can Senator Corker Save the State Department?
The gross misconduct of Rex Tillerson and the White House toward career diplomats and the Foreign Service might require an unlikely savior.
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Barbara J. Stephenson, former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London, delivers remarks during the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) Memorial Plaque Ceremony for Steven Farley, at the U.S. State Department, May 6, 2016, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Top U.S. Diplomat Blasts Trump Administration for ‘Decapitation’ of State Department Leadership
Weakening State cedes diplomacy to U.S. adversaries, say current and former officials.
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(Left to right) Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea's President Alpha Conde, U.S. President Donald Trump, African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on May 27 in Taormina, Sicily. (Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Dangerous Retreat from Africa
The U.S. administration is ramping up military engagement on the continent but ramping everything else down. Other countries are already filling the void.
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The U.S. State Department in Washington. White House Taps Pence Associate to Run Foreign Service
Critics fear Trump administration will politicize diplomatic corps with unprecedented pick.
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Journalists at the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13, 2015. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) It’s Time for the State Department to Stop Throwing Money at Facebook
We need to demand accountability from social media companies — and from U.S. diplomats.
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U.S. President Donald Trump talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7. (Philippe Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images) China Is Looking Forward to Trump’s Truancy at the East Asia Summit
Showing up matters.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves a briefing on North Korea at the State Department on Aug. 22, 2017 (Brendan Smialowski /AFP/Getty Images) State Department Scraps Sanctions Office
The Trump administration was three weeks late on a Russia sanctions deadline. But it’s killed the office that coordinates them.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump attend a luncheon with African leaders in New York on Sept. 20. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Troops Are on the Ground in Africa, but Diplomacy Is Missing in Action
Nikki Haley’s trip to the continent won’t solve the problem.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson departs after delivering a statement at the State Department on Oct. 4, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) As State Department Withers, So Does Diversity in Top Ranks
Tillerson “hasn’t put his money where his mouth is.”
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Members of a Myanmar military honor guard raise their bayonet-mounted rifles in a salute during a dawn flag-raising ceremony at Yangon's central Mahabandoola Park on Jan. 4. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Pulls Military Assistance to Myanmar Over Rohingya Abuses
But experts say the measures will have limited effect and could even backfire.
