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Cover Story
Venezuela’s Envoy Insists
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People of World Influence
Smithsonian Chief
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Caribbean
At Meridian Forum, Havana Envoy
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Convention Craziness
U.S. Presidential Coronations
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Backlash at Ballot Box
Trump Inspires Surge in Muslim,
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Global Vantage Point
Op-ed: Obama Not to Blame
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Diplomacy Verbatim
Sister Cities International Marks
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EU Candor
Despite Problems, EU Envoy Says
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Medical
Painkiller That Killed Prince One
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David Skorton, the first physician to lead the Smithsonian, is working to expand the institution’s already-sizeable international footprint, which extends to some 145 nations around the world. 
With diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana already a fact of life, Cuban Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas says the urgency now is deepening that relationship through economic and cultural exchange — and ending the trade embargo that has defined U.S. policy toward the island for the last 55 years. 
Every four years, America’s political parties gather their faithful in respective conventions to nominate a candidate for president. The Republicans will hold their convention in Cleveland, Ohio while the Democrats will host their convention in Philadelphia. And if history is any indicator, political observers may be treated to some high drama. 
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has railed against an entire rainbow of minorities, from Muslims to Mexicans. While his heated rhetoric has struck a chord with conservatives, it’s also inspired immigrants to sign up to vote and battle him at the ballot box. 
Philip Gordon, a former Middle East policy adviser in the White House, likes to say that President Barack Obama learned three lessons from the region’s unending turmoil. From Iraq: all-out American intervention to engineer regime change in an Arab country results in disaster. From Libya: limited intervention results in disaster. And from Syria: no intervention results in disaster. 
This Sept. 11 marks 60 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a citizen diplomacy campaign initially aimed at improving ties with Japan and Germany. The sister cities movement has since exploded as more governments recognize the importance of citizen diplomacy in an interconnected world. 
Steering clear of the two most contentious issues of the day — Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy — the European Union’s top envoy here still found plenty to discuss during The Washington Diplomat’s fourth Ambassador Insider Series (AIS). 
The recent overdose death of rock legend Prince has brought renewed focus on the dangers posed by synthetic opioids, laboratory-created narcotics tweaked by chemists to produce potentially lethal highs while skirting U.S. drug laws. 