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.
NPR
‘If You Can Keep It’: One Year After Massive State Department Layoffs
Steve Adams-Smith, Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2026
Are We Seeing the Reemergence of the Spoils System?