Rex Tillerson

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Ronan Farrow: Foreign policy mistakes show US diplomacy needs reform, not reversal

Global Politics

Journalist Ronan Farrow takes a hard look at the decline of American diplomacy in his new book, “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”

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Can Pompeo get the State Department ‘back at the big kids’ table’?

Conflict
A combination photo shows US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and CIA Director Mike Pompeo

So, what does Pompeo have that Tillerson doesn’t?

Global Politics
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Amb. Wendy Sherman speaking at Wellesley College.

Madeleine Albright: ‘Many of the best diplomats are women’

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends as US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside the ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 13, 2017.

State Department officials accuse Tillerson of violating US law on child soldiers

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Rex Tillerson

When it comes to North Korea, the era of ‘strategic patience’ is over

Conflict

On Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called for an end to Barack Obama’s “strategic patience” policy.

Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson was an outspoken critic of the rule designed to prevent bribery.

In a victory for the oil industry, Congress makes it easier to pay bribes for drilling rights

Economics

Oil and mining industries stand to gain as the US backs out of a rule to prevent overseas oil bribery.

Oil facilities at Venezuela's western Maracaibo lake November 5, 2007.

Rex Tillerson’s long, troubled history in Venezuela

Economics

Venezuela and ExxonMobil have been spatting over oil for decades. How will that history impact relations under a Rex Tillerson-run State Department?

The World

A tainted well points to trouble with natural gas drilling

Environment

The E.P.A. has unearthed a report from 1984 in West Virginia that indicates clearly that fracking contaminated drinking water, and that the oil and gas industry was aware of the possible dangers of the practice. Ian Urbina reports.

The World

Another day of Oil in Washington

Global Politics

The Takeaway’s Todd Zwillich was on the scene of the BP hearing to witness all of the theatrics. He says the hearing served as a venting session for public anger, as well as possibly the beginning of a new push for climate change legislation.