The future of the State Department

The World

As President-elect Joe Biden announces his picks for the State Department’s top positions, experts are making recommendations for how the department needs to change. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, many blame the Trump administration for the agency’s current status of profound crisis. But they say the problems are structural and began long before the current president took office.

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