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I get asked all kinds of questions regarding my (former) life in the CIA. Because the cloak of secrecy hides our activities from the general public, there are numerous misconceptions about the [...]

Congratulations, Ms. Haspel, on your confirmation as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Just like past directors, you have an incredible mission—to lead one of the world’s pre-eminent [...]

You’ve done it. You’ve survived college: you mastered new exam formats, obtained all necessary credits and walked the plank in graduation gown and mortarboard.   Now what?   What lies [...]

So to get my mind off of the hurricane about to batter my home state, my sister Julie took me and my niece Danielle to Trapeze School for a couple of hours…   Sometimes, you have to [...]

My husband, Joseph, and I just spent a couple of weeks traveling in Europe for summer vacation. We were in the UK, Austria, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Greece. Given that several of these countries [...]