What the U.S. state department can learn from the musical ‘Hamilton’

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It hasn't been a good 100 days for the US Department of State. Like the musical Hamilton's orphaned title character, called out in song for being a "Founding Father without a father," State is now something of an agency without agency.

Not much of substance seems to be happening at Foggy Bottom. America's top-level foreign policy tasks remain, but someone else – Jared Kushner? HR McMaster? – is tending to many of them.