Bush’s “Big Bang” theory of regional transformation, then Venezuela has become Trump’s test of hemispheric re-engineering.

Last month, the U.S. State Department carried out what may be the largest single-day layoff in its history—1,350 people gone in one day. Among them: experts on the South China Sea, chemical and ...

The news this past weekend that the Trump administration plans to shutter the United States Agency for Global Media was hardly unexpected. It nonetheless came as a shock to many who work in what is ...

Palestinians walk beneath the tilted minaret of a destroyed mosque in the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on Oct. 7, 2024, on the first anniversary of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip between ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks John Dinkelman, new president of the American Foreign Service Association, about how layoffs will affect the State Department and American diplomacy. People fired last week at ...

In his second inaugural address, President Trump announced he would build “the strongest military the world has ever seen.” He followed up by sending Congress in June a record $1.01 trillion Defense ...