by Matt Armstrong | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
Archibald MacLeish: The right to a free press — the right of the people to read and to hear and therefore to think as they please — is, I deeply believe, the basic right upon which freedom rests. Freedom of exchange of information between the peoples of...
by Matt Armstrong | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. Everything’s done on a very high level, there’s a lot of commotion, and it takes twenty-two months for anything to happen. Source: Cary Reich, The life...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 12, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis It’s been nearly four months since we asked the State Department to grant open and public access to its statistics – broken down by gender and race – regarding promotions in the Foreign Service in “What’s the big secret with the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The good news is that the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy has seemingly risen from the ashes – or more accurately been wrested from the clutches of a member of the US Congress who refused to vote for the pittance required to keep this...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 27, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how AQ messages potential ISers — as usual, when there’s an overlap between divergent ideas, I start thinking ] . ** I was reading, once again, today about the US social media campaign in a WAPo piece, Digital War Takes Shape...
