Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of “All Things Considered,” NPR’s evening newsmagazine. Her assignments have included North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran and beyond. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Newsweek, among other publications. Kelly is the author of the novels “Anonymous Sources” and “The Bullet” and the memoir “It.Goes.So.Fast.:The Year of No Do-Overs,” an instant New York Times best-seller. Her work has been honored with an Edward R. Murrow award, the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment award, Gracie awards and an Audie award. She was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Iran. Kelly is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Highlights
What good diplomats do, says George Packer, author of Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, is “get into the skin of the person on the other side of the table” in order to truly understand them. This allows the US to draw in alliances and mobilize coalitions of countries, though Burns explains he’s worried that “we’re corroding that tool of diplomacy and squandering that asset.” What’s more, adds Mary Louise Kelly of NPR, sending diplomats to solve our most pressing global issues “only has a shred of a chance of success if that person is seen to be carrying the word and carrying the weight of the president.”
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