The Cost to America and the World
The American Diplomacy journal has focused its mission on presenting the voices of practitioners: commentaries and stories from people who “have been there.” With this section of the journal, we aim to explore what is at stake in the current diplomacy crisis, focusing on the views of practitioners, but also including commentary from informed observers from academia and the media.
Kate Knibbs, Wired
‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts
Steve Inskeep, NPR.org
How layoffs will affect the State Department and American diplomacy
Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Annie Gray, CNN
State Department firings will hit Trump admin’s ability to tackle its own priorities, sources say
Trygve Olson, Searching for Hope
Firing the Front Line: Why Hollowing Out the State Department Destroys American Power
Jeff Hovenier, The Bellingham Herald
The U.S. just fired nearly 1,400 diplomats. That should alarm us all
Glenn C. Altschuler, The Hill
A postmortem on the dismantling of USAID