State moves forward with foreign service officer layoffs in blow to civil service

The State Department on Tuesday officially terminated the employment of approximately 200 foreign service members as part of a reduction in force (RIF), part of more than 1,300 layoffs at the ...
Defense One

Shortly after laying off hundreds, State hires new class of foreign service staff

Less than 10 weeks after the State Department laid off hundreds of Foreign Service Officers, citing bureaucratic bloat, it is beginning to bring nearly 100 new ones on. Last week, the Office of Talent ...
Washington Examiner

Judge blocks Trump from removing Foreign Service workers’ collective bargaining rights

A federal judge granted Foreign Service workers a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump over his attempt to strip them of collective bargaining rights. On March 27, Trump signed an ...
Foreign Affairs

The American Foreign Service

THE work of the American Foreign Service has often been shrouded in mystery. In reality there is nothing mysterious about it. In kind, it is the work that is being carried on in the United States by ...
Foreign Affairs

The Foreign Service in Transition

SOMEWHERE along the road between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima a fundamental schism in the American outlook on foreign affairs disappeared. The reference is not to the division of opinion which developed ...
The Hill

100 years later, US Foreign Service is still on the front lines of diplomacy

Everyone entering the State Department through the flag-draped C Street entrance passes by marble plaques recording the names of 321 Foreign Service officers who died in the service of the United ...
The Washington Post

The Foreign Service is too white. We’d know — we’re top diplomats.

When we began our careers in the 1970s, the Foreign Service was an exclusive club: overwhelmingly white, male and Ivy League-educated, filled with stuffed shirts in striped pants attending swanky ...
The Hoya

Foreign Service Officer Discusses State Department Diversity

Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar of the U.S. Department of State discussed the importance of diversity in foreign service and how diversity has shaped the State Department at Georgetown’s ...
The Washington Post

Five myths about the Foreign Service

Members of the U.S. Foreign Service, the professional diplomats who represent the United States government and help U.S. citizens abroad, have long been the target of jibes from lawmakers, pundits and ...