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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 [...]

On October 3, 15 Cuban diplomats were told they had a week to leave their posts in the United States, to match staff reductions at the US Embassy in Havana following mysterious attacks on at [...]

On September 24, President Trump announced a newly updated policy to replace existing travel bans implemented earlier this year. The policy includes a range of restrictions on Iran, Libya, [...]

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 [...]

Jordan Dinsmore is one lucky and clear-headed young lady. Her three abductors could not drive her stick-shift (manual) vehicle, so they made her drive while they sat in the passenger seats. After [...]