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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Prior to two weeks ago, Middlebury College in Vermont had become just another poster child for the war on free speech on American college and… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Closer ties with the countries of Central Europe are a national security policy priority for the Trump administration—and a long-overdue return to the policies of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Believers in internet freedom and all the potential of the digital revolution should be deeply disheartened by Google’s spineless decision last week to abandon its… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Trump administration’s budget proposal for the U.S. Agency for Global Media for fiscal 2020 reflects indifference—if not disdain—for the agency whose self-proclaimed mission is… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Evidence continues to mount that the U.S. Agency for Global Media is in profound need of new leadership. Scandal after scandal has arisen from poor… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
Europeans routinely complain about being neglected by U.S. administrations. As much as Europeans doted on then-President Barack Obama, he indeed treated them with benign indifference,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
After two years of stalling, it’s time for the Trump administration to get its own leadership in place at the U.S. government’s global media complex…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
Without fail, every time a Trump nominee gets closer to a Senate confirmation hearing to head the International Broadcasting Bureau, the media pounces and sounds… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The State Department is about to get a big brain. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo named scholar and national security expert Kiron Skinner on Thursday… Read More
InternationalCommentary
World Press Freedom Day was duly celebrated at the Broadcasting Board of Governors late last month. Yet, at Voice of America, a major part of… Read More
