Mary Louise Kelly
Co-Host, “All Things Considered,” NPR
Mary Louise Kelly is co-host of “All Things Considered,” NPR’s evening newsmagazine. Her recent interviews range from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA Director William Burns to Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey. Kelly was previously a national security correspondent for NPR News, reporting on the CIA and NSA; terrorism; wars; and rising nuclear powers. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Politico 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. She was a 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist for reporting from Iran on the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
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.”
Previously
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