Secretary of State Antony Blinken sends a directive authorizing U.S. outposts to fly the “LGBT pride” flag on the same flagpole as the U.S. flag starting in May. Under U.S. law, embassies and other official outposts must be granted permission by the State Department before posting any banners other than the American flag on the flagstaffs outside their offices. Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst Daniel Kochis says: “Pushing ‘progressive’ narratives often runs afoul of local religious or cultural sensitivities and will besmirch the U.S. as an impartial interlocutor in many countries.”