Knowledge

   by William D. Morgan & Charles Stuart Kennedy
   by J. Robert Moskin
   by Malcolm Gladwell (UAFS) (FS)
   by Harry W. Kopp (ebrary)
   by Ronald T. Takaki (UAFS) (FS)
   by Henry Kissinger (UAFS) (FS)
   by Kenneth C. Davis (UAFS) (FS) (FS CD)
   by Peter Drucker (UAFS)
   by W. Struck Jr. & E.B. White (UAFS)
   by Steven Coll (UAFS) (FS)
   by Jared Diamond (UAFS) (UAFS DVD) (FS) (FS CD)
   by Martin Gilbert (FS)
   by Shawn Dorman
   by L.A. Samovar, R.E. Porter, & E.R. McDaniel
   by Karen Armstrong
   by Charles Wheelan (UAFS)
    by E.D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, & James Trefil (UAFS)
   by Margaret Olwen Macmillan (FS)
   by David Fromkin
   by Howard Zinn (UAFS) (FS)
   by Tony Judt (FS)
   by Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley
   by Daniel Kahneman (UAFS) (FS)
   by Thomas L. Friedman (UAFS) (UAFS CD) (FS) (FS CD)

Additional Reading:
Foreign Service Officer Test 
   by Adar Review
   by Gretchen Rubin
   by Malcolm Gladwell

Newspapers and Periodicals:
The Economist

Podcasts:
Washington Today (C-SPAN)
The Diane Rehm Show (npr)
Global News (BBC World Service)
intelligence2 Debates (npr)
The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin (Washington Post)
World Briefing (Washington Post)
Center for International Studies and Diplomacy (CIS)
Political Scene (The New Yorker)
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
talk of the nation (npr)
story of the day (npr)
it's all politics (npr)
Public Lectures & Events (LSE)
ECONTALK
Freakonomics Radio
All Audio (The Economist)
Travel with Rick Steves
Conversations with History (UCtv)
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Footnoting History
Lectures in History (American History TV)
HIST 1301 (American History Up to 1877)
HIST 1302 (American History since 1877)
History Extra
Great Speeches in History (LearnOutLoud)
Planet Money (npr)

Many but not all suggestions come from: