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My story, now ten years old, about changes in my Peace Corps village in Tamil Nadu over the years. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…
Nick Kristof writes a very personal account of reporting from Beijing during Tiananmen
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/world…
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The state of State: parlous. theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
Good article from @nytimes on Paolo Zampolli's career. He apparently told the reporter that he had been Dominica's ambassador to the UN. Verifiably a lie. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/style…
Ballroom donors, revealed. Note that these are tax-deductible charitable contributions wapo.st/4yiUDPx
Kimberley Guilfoyle meets her match in #Nepal
This is, unreservedly, my favorite account of an ambassador behaving badly, from a diplomatic oral history site. I read this years ago and cannot forget it, and you won’t either. (If they made this a movie, it’d be R rated.)
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I'm sorry to say but this is cutting off our nose to spite our face. I'm glad Ambassador Perdue agrees with me.
#EXCLUSIVE: Washington has stopped recruitment for its professional exchange programs in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, in a move opposed by US Ambassador to China David Perdue, President Donald Trump’s long-time ally, insiders have told Kyodo News. english.kyodonews.net/articl…
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Secretaries of State travel the world, to our biggest allies and to address the most pressing issues. But Marco Rubio does neither. His solo travels take him where assistant secretaries go. Rarely the boss. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaa…
“If you clap a little more, I’ll share this prize with Trump.”
Amazing moment.
Navi Pillay has received the Nobel Peace Prize ! bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck5yng9z…
We are at the Nuremberg Court; I cannot think of a stronger symbol for her Nobel prize.
We are all so thrilled!
This is her first reactions upon hearing the news:
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Quick thoughts on MLB's 154-game schedule proposal. In short, I like it. I would love it if they went to 156 games and did something I wrote MLB should do over 10 years ago.
Expand to 32. Ditch the leagues. Go to four 8-team divisions based on geography. Yankees and Mets together. White Sox and Cubs. Dodgers and Angels, etc.
You play one series against the 24 teams in the other three divisions, alternating home and away each season, so you visit every park once every two years. That's 72 games.
You play the seven other teams in your division 12 times. Six home. Six away. That's 84 games.
156 total.
This plays into geographical rivalries. It leads to more familiarity with pitching in your division, which will increase offense. Larger divisions reduce the chance a team with a mediocre record wins it. Less travel for all involved since the divisions are based on geography.
Everybody wins.
You're welcome.
MLB has proposed returning to a 154-game Regular Season, best-of-seven Division Series, and opponent selection in the Wild Card and Division Series
Starting in 2029, shortening the season to a 154-game schedule would create a standard weekly off day benefiting player health, and it would allow the addition of up to 8 more Postseason games by moving to a best-of-seven Division Series format
Beginning in 2027, higher-seeded clubs in the Wild Card and Division Series would select their opponents
The dismantling (and remantling) of Voice of America #VOA
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Fascinating history of the takeover of the US Institute of Peace #USIP wsj.com/politics/michael-lew…
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Eric Schmitt: “Did you or did you not eat no fat, and your wife no lean, so that between you both, you licked the platter clean?”
Jack Smith: “That was Jack Sprat.”
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Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not fall in love with a Native American woman who could talk to willow trees and paint with all the colors of the wind?"
Jack Smith: "That was John Smith."
What is the State Department thinking? nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world…

















