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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Confirmation hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 19 were full of fireworks aimed at three nominees of President Donald Trump, but none… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The announcement of new leadership at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty could signal the beginning of a new era in U.S. international broadcasting. Last week, foreign… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Ronald Reagan’s speech to the British Parliament at Westminster, delivered on June 8, 1982, continues to inspire in its vision and relevance. When Reagan… Read More
EducationCommentary
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
