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Alexander Ward

Alexander Ward

Alexander Ward is a national security reporter who covers the White House’s role in forming and executing U.S. foreign policy, and the power players shaping national security policy in Washington. He was the first anchor of POLITICO’s “National Security Daily”...
Ellen Nakashima

Ellen Nakashima

Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter with The Washington Post. She writes about U.S. – IndoPacific security issues, and the intersection of intelligence, technology and national security. She has covered cyber policy from the George W. Bush to Biden...
Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is the Leonard Lauder Professor of American History and Values at Tulane. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson’s most recent...
Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons is contributing editor at The National Interest and has served as Editor at Large of The Hill, The Atlantic and Semafor and served in senior editorial roles at National Journal and Quartz. He is also proprietor of the popular political blog The...
David Ignatius

David Ignatius

David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. Ignatius has written 12 spy novels: “Phantom Orbit,” (2024), “The Paladin,” (2020), “The Quantum Spy,” (2017), “The Director,” (2014), “Bloodmoney,” (2011), “The...
David Sanger

David Sanger

David E. Sanger has reported for the New York Times for more than four decades, serving on three teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize. He has served as Tokyo Bureau Chief, Chief Economic Correspondent, Chief Washington Correspondent and White House Correspondent,...
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