Op-ed Columns and Podcasts

“We can’t trust our foreign policy to amateurs,” The Washington Post, October 29, 2019. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/28/we-cant-trust-our-foreign-policy-amateurs/


“Diplomats are having an impeachment moment in the sun. It won’t last,” The Los Angeles Times, November 19, 2019. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-1


“Joseph Wilson: The Diplomat Who Challenged a War,” Politico Magazine, December 29,2019. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/29/joseph-wilson-ambassador-obituary-2019-086494


“Suleimani is owed no eulogies, but his record is more complicated than ‘evil mastermind.’ ” The Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2020. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-03/suleimani-is-owed-no-eulogies-but-his-record-is-more-complicated-than-evil-mastermind

PODCASTS

Paul Richter talks about the book for The World Unpacked podcast of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank. He is interviewed by Jen Psaki, who has served as chief spokeswoman for the White House and the State Department. https://the-world-unpacked.simplecast.com/episodes/behind-americas-ambassadors

Paul Richter and Ambassador Anne Patterson speak about diplomacy and The Ambassadors with Safiya Ghori-Ahmad of McLarty Associates.  December 13, 2019. https://maglobal.com/podcast-episode-4/


Paul Richter speaks to former Ambassador Jim Rosapepe of the Council of American Ambassadors, February 10, 2020
https://www.americanambassadorslive.org/post/america-s-diplomats-on-the-front-lines-with-paul-richter


Paul Richter speaks to Rich Fisher of Public Radio KWGS about The Ambassadors, December 6, 2019. https://maglobal.com/podcast-episode-4/

Paul Richter and Professor Jennifer Siegel speak about the U.S. Foreign Service with Ann Fisher of Public Radio WOSU, January 7,2020https://radio.wosu.org/post/inside-us-foreign-service