(Illustration by Washington Post staff; photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) By Max Stier

Max Stier is the president and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, a bipartisan organization focused on building a better government and a stronger democracy.

Since February, Marco Rubio has traveled to several countries, helped to mediate peace talks between Ukraine and Russia (and India and Pakistan), and met with the foreign minister of Syria’s new regime. Presumably, he’s balanced these diplomatic missions with his normal management duties as secretary of the State Department, where he oversees tens of thousands of employees.

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