State Department Official Resigns

To work in bureaucracy is to manage the tension between moral compromise and insider politics

When you work in government, finding peace of mind resides in one of two things.

You must outsource your personal beliefs entirely to your government—which, once you’ve seen how policy is made, would be psychotic. Or, when you start to see decisions being made that put you in an uncomfortable position, you must draw red lines for yourself that you decid…