Author Archive

Jennifer Koons

Jennifer Koons is a foreign policy reporter in Washington, D.C. She's a former foreign correspondent in the Middle East and a national security editor. She ​​teaches graduate students specializing in global affairs and national security ​for Medill's Politics and National Security Reporting Project at Northwestern University​.
Jennifer Koons is a foreign policy reporter in Washington, D.C. She's a former foreign correspondent in the Middle East and a national security editor. She ​​teaches graduate students specializing in global affairs and national security ​for Medill's Politics and National Security Reporting Project at Northwestern University​.
Management

When Feeling American Requires Leaving America

For some Black U.S. diplomats, the moment they feel most American is when they are abroad.

Management

What’s Driving Apolitical Diplomats to Get Political

Some former State Department officials are so concerned by Trump’s breach of diplomatic protocol that they have begun to advise 2020 Democrats.