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With the Department of State Authorization Act of 2021, President Biden signed into law substantial constraints on ad hoc diplomatic appointments. Here’s an explainer on the new law’s background and key provisions.

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The lack of hard data is a point of confusion for lawmakers and advocates. An official with the American Foreign Service Association said that the organization sought data in June 2020 from the State Department broken down by gender, ethnicity and other criteria to evaluate whether certain groups were suffering disproportionately, but only received some general information. CNN reported that it had obtained a sensitive-but-unclassified 2018 letter to House lawmakers that said restrictions had a...

A Plan To Reform U.S. Security Assistance Getty/Pete Kiehart A Ukrainian soldier shakes hands with one of his instructors after taking part in a "Combat Lifesaver Course" at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on April 22, 2015. Sam Hananel Introduction and summary U.S. security assistance is broken and in need of an overhaul. Over the past two decades, the bureaucratic system developed to deliver billions of dollars of military aid to partner nations ha...