U.S. Foreign Service

At last week's press conference, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney again misrepresented the central issue of President Obama's Sept. 12 Rose Garden remarks on Benghazi.  Carney's statements mirrored debate moderator Candy Crowley's inappropriate...

Bea Camp and David Summers will deliver the Press Distinguished Lecture at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Newlin Hall on the Centre College campus. The lecture is free and open to the public, and counts as a convocation credit for students. Camp and Summers,...

CHICAGO — Members of Anne Smedinghoff's family consoled themselves Sunday with the thought that the young U.S. diplomat died in the service of a cause that mattered deeply to her. "She was doing what she loved," her father said, "and she was doing...

Re "Ambassador Kennedy?," Editorial, April 3 In deriding Caroline Kennedy's possible nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to Japan, The Times makes the mistake of equating knowledge of a country and language fluency — skills found in career U.S....

The origins of the board game Diplomacy can be traced to an old geography book that Allan B. Calhamer discovered while rummaging around with a friend in the attic of his boyhood home in suburban Chicago. Calhamer was fascinated by the exotic countries...

Re "Who should pay?," Letters, Feb. 2 Many people say illegal immigrants should just go back home and stand in line like anyone else. That sounds reasonable only if you know nothing about how immigration visas are actually granted. In Mexico, demand...

For all the children who should be loved always, but especially on this wondrous night, with our arms around them and a long good-night kiss on the temple, a kiss more precious than anything wrapped in a box. For all the parents who linger in the...

Dennis, I'm in a pool trying to predict when (your) next column on Benghazi will come out. Now with the (retired Gen. David) Petraeus scandal, just give me a little clue ... OK? I'll split the winnings w/ya! — email from reader G.H. G.H., you...

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith. Former Navy SEAL commandos Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Remember them? They were the four Americans killed in the terrorist attack at the U.S. diplomatic...

The Tunisian government on Wednesday confirmed it has arrested a 28-year-old Tunisian reportedly linked to the U.S. Consulate attack in Libya, according to the AP. Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Tarrouch Khaled said Ali Harzi was in custody in...

Centre College students Nick Do and Nathan Shuler, both 20, plan to cast their first presidential ballots on Election Day. Do, a junior majoring in international studies and Spanish, said he was just shy of being old enough to vote in the 2008...

An ambassador killed Tuesday during an attack on the US Consulate in Libya grew up in Davis and the Bay Area. J. Christopher Stevens was among the four Americans killed in the rocket attack on the consulate building in the city of Benghazi. Stevens...