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August 6, 2026 | Elizabeth Robbins |

Why Congress Should Tear Down USAGM’s Firewall

As US adversaries clog global airwaves, US-funded media should advance US interests around the world.

August 5, 2026 | Ivana Stradner, Camille Roussel

Russia Is Back to Banning Books

Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time,” Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando,” and Stephen King’s “It.” These are just a few victims of book purges happening all over Russia. Every...

November 26, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

‘PRC’s political warfare is total war without fighting major kinetic wars’

Kerry Gershaneck, a former US Marine officer and a university professor, speaks to The Sunday Guardian.

April 15, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Voices of America

Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up

June 13, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Last Chance for Public Diplomacy

The right messenger could make a world of difference.

March 8, 2006 |

The World Needs English VOA

As America becomes increasingly involved in the global war on terrorism, the Bush administration is planning to shut down its worldwide English-language broadcasts on the Voice of America. This i...

March 16, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Fighting the War of Ideas

Not a Job for Sissies

November 26, 2003 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Losing the War of Ideas; Why America Doesn’t Need To

Immediately following 9/11, much of the world expressed great sympathy for the United States. That sympathy probably would have persisted – if a victimized America had been willing to conti...