Alexis Ludwig

Apr 11, 2024 | americanpurpose.com | Natalie Gonnella-Platts |Jeffrey Gedmin |Alexis Ludwig

Political campaigns are not rocket science–but in our current electoral season, we've seen more circus clown antics than academic argument. This phenomenon has me rethinking what I thought I had learned by observing some of the world’s most fragile democracies as a career diplomat—that American democracy was uniquely resilient and those who uphold it deeply committed to its tenets and principles. The other possibility is simply that I learned the wrong thing.

Jan 31, 2024 | miamiherald.com | Alexis Ludwig

Like many Americans contemplating our possible political future with a wary eye, I feel nostalgia for another time. After three decades representing the United States as a State Department foreign service officer, I retired this past September and decided to bookend my diplomatic career by driving from the Washington, D.C., area where I live to my home state of California, and then back again two months later.

Jan 31, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Alexis Ludwig

Like many Americans contemplating our possible political future with a wary eye, I feel nostalgia for another time. After three decades representing the United States as a State Department foreign service officer, I retired this past September and decided to bookend my diplomatic career by driving from the Washington, D.C., area where I live to my home state of California, and then back again two months later.

Jan 31, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Ludwig

Like many Americans contemplating our possible political future with a wary eye, I feel nostalgia for another time. After three decades representing the United States as a State Department foreign service officer, I retired this past September and decided to bookend my diplomatic career by driving from the Washington, D.C., area where I live to my home state of California, and then back again two months later.