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The Trump administration’s newly unveiled national security strategy lists reinforcing America’s alliances as a major objective. Yet in the…
The Foreign Service, our country’s irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing…
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President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive…
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