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Cover Story
Hungary’s New Envoy Tries to Set
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People of World Influence
Ex-Envoy Sees Widening
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Wide Gulf
As Saudi Coalition Bombs Yemen,
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Taking Down Drones
ACLU Lawsuit Seeks to Pry
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Elevating LGBT Rights
LGBT Rights Becomes Pillar
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Women Ambassadors
Women’s Foreign Policy Group
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America’s Ambassadors
New Book Describes Good, Bad
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Twiplomacy Winners and Losers
Beyond 140 Characters: Twiplomacy
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Medical
New Cholesterol-Busting Drugs
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The Arab Spring and Iranian nuclear talks have unleashed a torrent of tangled alliances and bitter battles, and few experts understand these confusing turn of events than Edward “Skip” Gnehm Jr., a former U.S. envoy to Kuwait and Jordan. 
Lashing out at Washington’s perceived coziness with Iran, Saudi Arabia has begun flexing its military muscle, igniting a proxy war in Yemen that could plunge the region into more turmoil. 
Targeted drone killings remain intensely popular with Americans — not so much with other countries — but a lawsuit is hoping to pry open a policy that has been shrouded in secrecy. 
The U.S. has a record number of openly gay ambassadors abroad (six), a sign of the Obama administration’s decision to elevate LGBT rights as a tenet of foreign policy. 
When the Women’s Foreign Policy Group was formed in 1995, Washington had barely a dozen female ambassadors. Today, as the group marks its 20th anniversary, there are double that amount, a sign that the proverbial glass ceiling has been chipped, but not broken. 
Dennis Jett’s richly detailed new book, “American Ambassadors,” offers fascinating insights into the world of U.S. diplomacy — the good, bad and the ugly. 
The latest “Twiplomacy” study gauges the effectiveness of world leaders on Twitter and what it takes to have staying power on social media. 
A promising new class of cholesterol drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors is likely to make some dramatic changes in how cardiovascular disease is treated.