Helle C. Dale is the Heritage Foundation's senior fellow in public diplomacy. Her work focuses on the U.S. government’s institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public of foreign countries, as well as more traditional diplomacy. Read her research.
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The Obama White House has embraced digital communication like none before it. According to The Washington Post, the White House Office of Public Engagement has… Read More
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One of the mysteries surrounding the Benghazi scandal appears to have been solved with the release of the private emails of former Secretary of State… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The state of media freedom in Africa is “grim,” according to the media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, which took stock of the situation recently… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) voted unanimously in favor of reforming U.S. International Broadcasting (USIB). It is the second time the Committee has… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It’s been a year since the House Select Committee on Benghazi began its work, and although the committee has produced an interim report and its… Read More
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi, is fine with Hillary Clinton’s decision to appear at a full hearing… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Not even the week of Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her presidential candidacy could pass without further revelations emerging on her use of email when she… Read More
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For Hillary Clinton, the deadline came and went Friday to hand over the personal email server she used as secretary of state to the House… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Ministers from European Union countries decided last week to work strategically to counter Russian’s propaganda offensive in Ukraine and other former Soviet states. EU countries… Read More
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Those 300 Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department to the House Select Committee on Benghazi appear to confirm the view that Clinton’s top… Read More
