Trump’s Italian Doppelgänger survived COVID-19. An encouraging example for the President, perhaps. Though more visibly fit, recidivist former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is actually ten years older than Trump. Still, he • Read More »
Tags: Berlusconi, COVID-19, populism, trump
Ambassador behaving badly. Not exactly a new story, but the CBS News item about the current U.S. ambassador to Iceland was particularly juicy. Although serving in one of the safest countries in • Read More »
Tags: career diplomats, Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, political appointees, U.S. ambassador, vetting
A truly shocking and appalling story of systematic Customs and Border Protection (CBP) harassment of a young, Black US diplomat who was posted in Mexico and often needed to cross the border • Read More »
Tags: Black, CBP, State Department, US diplomat, US-Mexico border
Competence in government will be a significant issue in the November elections. This was already clear before the crisis triggered by the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Before the coronavirus pandemic • Read More »
Tags: ABA, CDC, Chief of Protocol, Competence, COVID-19, Department of State, Federal judges, US government