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VOA can play a crucial role in outreach to the Iranian people. But the White House should get serious about fixing its problems.

I recently had the privilege to interview Michael Pack, the director of Created Equal, a man who has not only made 15 feature films on a multitude of subjects, but was also senior vice president for television programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the first Senate confirmed CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media during the Trump Administration.

© Getty Images The United States has an image problem. Foreign publics have historically low approval of U.S. leadership and take a dim view of how the U.S. has handled the challenges of recent years — from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the horrifically incompetent response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such unforced errors suggest that well before Trump, “soft power,” the appeal of America that has been a secret of our post-World War II success, was eroding. The image the U.S. has developed ...

Thank you Justice Thomas for your unflinching bravery and all you’ve done to serve our nation.

Biden administration works to clean house of Trump appointees Battle lines are forming across Washington as the Biden administration grapples with how to handle dozens of Trump loyalists the former President installed after the election. Over the past two weeks, the new administration has made an effort to remove a number of Trump appointees across various government agencies and boards. While some have gone quietly, others have not, raising questions about the legal authority President Joe Bid...

Print this article I first became a Wall Street correspondent 34 years ago, after Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987. An element in that day’s panic was an undertow of concern about ballooning public spending. A debt clock loomed over Times Square, alarming passersby, its flickering red line of figures looking like what it was, a danger signal. I recall people’s eyes standing on stalks at the “telephone number” string of digits showing what we collectively owed. Public debt back then had reac...

Americas lost voice Print this article In a talk before he was fired, Michael Pack expressed the hope that the new managers he had brought into the five networks would run them in a more objective and balanced way than in the past. By the time we talked after the inauguration, they had all been fired by Joe Biden, too. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner) Michael Pack has the distinction of being the very first person fired by the Biden administration. On Inauguration ...

Last year, as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “offline” world suddenly became a lot more online. All around the world, people have struggled to adapt. Worst off are those who can’t take internet access for granted. The Federal Communications Commission will spend many resources on the domestic side of this challenge, further investing in internet connectivity reach, quality, and affordability. But the international side, known as “internet freedom,” is a harder question. I...

Opinion: Bidens facing a diplomacy deficit going back decades CNN 2/1/2021 © Scott Olson/Getty Images North America/Getty Images One of President Joe Bidens first acts in office was to request the resignation of Michael Pack as head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which manages all US government broadcasting, including such venerable services as the Voice of America, Radio Marti, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. These networks have a nearly 80-year record of providing credibl...

English By Jessica Jerreat Share on Facebook The new acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media this week approved several J-1 visa applications for foreign journalists working for Voice of America, one of the networks it oversees. The applications are the first to be approved by the agency since June last year.   USAGM leader Kelu Chao, whom the Biden administration appointed in an acting capacity last Wednesday, approved the renewal applicat...