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US Envoy-Designate to the UN Turns the Long-Awaited Spotlight on Africa

Barbara Crossette
  •  December 7, 2020 
When President-elect Joe Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the next ambassador to the United Nations, he was signaling that American diplomacy would face big changes. If she is confirmed by the Senate in the new year, the UN will have a seasoned, top-rank diplomat in the United States’ Security Council seat, a break …

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BOOKS

An Irish-American Idealist: Samantha Power

Lucia Mouat
  •  July 18, 2020 
Photo of Samantha Power in South Sudan
In her enjoyable memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” Samantha Power shifts easily between her family life and her challenging career adventures. She draws on her Irish roots in storytelling — coming to the United States from Dublin at age 9 with her mother and younger brother. And she makes no effort along the …

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COVID-19

Will the Coronavirus Leave Joe and Kelly Craft Homeless? Maybe the Fed Can Help

Irwin Arieff
  •  May 15, 2020 
Kelly Craft and Joseph Craft at a 2018 reception in Ottawa
A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on federal rules aimed at safeguarding the environment, slowing climate change and protecting miners and other …

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COVID-19

Kelly Craft Clarifies Her Worldview: Trump’s Word Reigns Supreme

Irwin Arieff
  •  April 17, 2020 
US ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft
What a difference a few weeks can make. At the end of March, Kelly Craft, President Trump’s top ambassador at the United Nations, insisted that midbattle against a dread disease sweeping the globe was no time for an international blame game. Just two weeks later, there she was, jumping on Trump’s blame-game bandwagon. What …

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US Ambassador Kelly Craft Resumes Campaign Donations with a Big Gift to Trump

Irwin Arieff
  •  February 26, 2020 
Kelly Craft has taken a big step toward helping to ensure her political future, lavishing a campaign contribution of $360,600 on the re-election of her boss, President Donald Trump. The gift is the first that Craft, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has dished out since joining the diplomatic corps as ambassador …

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Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

Irwin Arieff
  •  August 26, 2019 
Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting her into? Knight Craft, the soft-spoken wife of a billionaire coal executive from Kentucky, demonstrates …

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Kelly Knight Craft, Trump’s Pick for UN Envoy, Is Knee-Deep in Coal, So Is That a Problem?

Irwin Arieff
  •  March 12, 2019 
It’s easy to figure out why Donald Trump picked Kelly Knight Craft to be his ambassador to the United Nations. She and her husband, Joseph Craft III, a billionaire coal baron, showered the president and his Republican Party with millions in campaign contributions in 2016. (A business consultant before she became a diplomat, she’s …

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Senate Hearing for Heather Nauert as US Envoy to UN Could Happen in February

Dulcie Leimbach
  •  January 14, 2019 
President Trump announced that he was nominating Heather Nauert, the chief State Department spokesperson, to succeed Nikki Haley as the United States ambassador to the United Nations on Dec. 7, 2018, after Haley resigned the job in October. Since Trump’s announcement, by tweet, much has been reported on the nomination and bare-bones experience of …

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NIKKI HALEY WATCH

Will Trump’s Musical Chairs Leave Nikki Haley Without a Seat?

Irwin Arieff
  •  March 23, 2018 
Nikki Haley insisted all along that she had no desire to become Donald Trump’s secretary of state. But with Mike Pompeo, the CIA director, in line to succeed Rex Tillerson as the State Department’s top dog, Haley may soon find that her thinking was a big mistake. Haley asked Trump right from the start …

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