FOCUS ON FOREIGN SERVICE FAMILIES AT HOME
Here is an insightful and heartwarming account of how one couple fulfilled their dream of becoming parents through adoption.
BY CLAYTON BOND
Helping their children form an American cultural and national identity is a particular challenge for Foreign Service parents. One FSO offers some practical pointers from her family’s experience.
BY LIA MILLER
Get to know the nonprofit groups and State Department offices that offer a social safety net for Foreign Service youth.
BY JOHN K. NALAND
Building a pro-bono human rights research group gave university student volunteers from around the world valuable, real-life career experience—and made a difference, too.
BY AIDAN GORMAN
Long after retirement, a group of TCKs who were grade-school classmates in Egypt reunited online. Here they tell their story.
BY MARY MARIKO MURO, JILL P. STRACHAN, AND JOHN R. WHITMAN
COVER STORY
On the 30th anniversary of what Russians call the “October Coup,” a veteran FSO offers an inside view of the fateful standoff between the president and the legislature in Moscow.
BY LOUIS D. SELL
FEATURE
Pet transport while in the Foreign Service is a daunting task. This semifictional account does not stray far from its absurdly exasperating reality.
BY JEAN A. MONFORT
FS HERITAGE
The best biography of the great Ludwig van Beethoven was written by a U.S. diplomat in the late 19th century. Here is the story.
BY LUCIANO MANGIAFICO
PERSPECTIVES
The Broken Nominations Process
BY TOM YAZDGERDI
FS Families … at Home
BY SHAWN DORMAN
Go Ahead, Ask About My Accent
BY NIKOLINA KULIDZAN
It Took Me 30 Years, but I Finally Put Down Roots
BY LOUISA ROGERS
Vilnius, Lithuania
BY SUSAN JORGENSEN
DEPARTMENTS
AFSA NEWS
Building a Culture of Belonging
BY HUI JUN TINA WONG
A Case for Unions
BY RANDY CHESTER
Small but Mighty, Not More with Less
BY LISA AHRAMJIAN
A Season of Newness
BY JOSHUA BURKE
Safeguard Your Finances
BY JOHN K. NALAND
