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Cover Story
Gambian Envoy Disavows Longtime
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Creating Chaos
Five Hotspots to Watch Out For
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Trump’s ‘Betrayal’
Trump’s Travel Ban Feels Like
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Testing Limits of Dissent
Trump’s Refugee Ban Sparks
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Op-Ed
Was State Department’s Dissent Memo
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The Manufacturing Mystery
Trade, Automation, Wages Conspire
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Global Gala
D.C.’s World Affairs Council Honors
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How to Be Like Ike
Eisenhower’s Presidency
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Medical
Heart Disease Could Cost U.S.
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President Trump’s penchant for chaos has turned the world order upside down, generating the possibility of fresh conflicts from China to Ukraine to Mexico. The Washington Diplomat highlights the top five hotspots around the world to watch out for as he begins his presidency. 
For many Iraqis, especially those who fought alongside U.S. troops since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, seeing their country on Donald Trump’s now-infamous blacklist of refugees barred from the U.S. felt like a “betrayal,” as Iraq’s former ambassador, Lukman Faily — himself banned from visiting the U.S. — described it. 
President Donald Trump’s brief time in office has already been unprecedented in many ways, including the level of vociferous dissent he has triggered in the State Department. More than 1,000 Foreign Service and civil service officers signed a dissent memo objecting to Trump’s executive order banning entry visas for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. 
Some 1,000 employees at the Department of State are said to have signed a formal memo sent through the “Dissent Channel” in late January, opposing President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending the admission of all refugees for 120 days. But what does the memo say to the new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about the organization he now heads, and what will he do about it? 
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump struck a protectionist, populist tone that appealed to Rust Belt blue-collar workers but instilled fear among multinational companies, foreign governments and free trade advocates. Those fears were apparently well founded. 
At a time when Washington feels divided, the World Affairs Council – Washington, DC is preparing to honor five organizations for their unifying global contributions at its annual HONORS: Global Education Gala, to be held March 29. 
President Donald Trump To be sure, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s personal and professional background could not be more different than Donald Trump’s and the political world he dominated is of a different century — and seemingly different universe — than today’s. Nonetheless, there are lessons from Ike that Trump would be wise to consider. 
Heart disease is increasing at a troubling pace in the United States, with costs expected to double from $555 billion in 2016 to a whopping $1.1 trillion in 2035, a new American Heart Association (AHA) report estimates. 