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RIF’d State and AID Employees, American Foreign Service Association
Service Disrupted: Firsthand Accounts from the Field

Alex Thomas, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Ex-USAID worker mourns agency’s fate

Day Mount, The Falmouth Enterprise
AFSA: A Union That Can’t Strike

Nahal Toosi, Politico
Trump is breaking US diplomacy, State Department staffers say

Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
State Department cuts raise a question: What is the US national interest?

Sarah Gal, Public Diplomacy Council of America
People to People Outreach — How It Works for Orlando Florida

Abigail Williams and Dan De Luce, NBC News
U.S. diplomats say they’re reluctant to share inconvenient truths with the Trump administration

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 … Read more

Shiv Patel and Karen Ames, Asia Times
The agony and death left by USAID’s exit from Myanmar

Michael C. Loftus, War on the Rocks
Gutting U.S. Government Humanitarianism Makes the Defense Department’s Job Harder

The Editor’s Page Commentary Shifting Sands for Public Diplomacy in the USSR and Russia by Michael Hurley The Destruction of USAID: How to Cause Innocent Deaths, Save Little Money, Betray Our Legacy and Help Our Adversaries by W. Robert Pearson … Read more

The Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s professional diplomatic service continues.  As of mid-July, of 195 ambassadorial positions in the State Department, 107 are currently vacant.  The administration has still not nominated ambassadors to India, Indonesia, or Brazil—three of the five most populous countries in the world–to Germany, Russia, or Ukraine. 

by Michael Hurley 

How to Cause Innocent Deaths, Save Little Money, Betray Our Legacy and Help Our Adversaries
by W. Robert Pearson