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Ben Wolfgang

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Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology.
A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns.
His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors.
Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies.
Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who was the GOP's 2012 vice presidential nominee but took a pass on this year's presidential contest, said Republican infighting plays into the hands of President Obama, who exploits those fights to pursue his own agenda. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan pitches grand 2016 vision that’s short on details

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Friday his troops will offer voters a clear, conservative agenda before they vote in November, though he failed to outline concrete goals for 2016 after a three-day retreat in Baltimore that's been dominated by talk of the raucous GOP nominating race for president.

January 15, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders is bucking fellow contender Hillary Clinton's narrative that she has crucial South Carolina in the bag. (Associated Press)

Bernie Sanders gaining crucial ground over Clinton in South Carolina

After overtaking Hillary Clinton in some Iowa and New Hampshire polls, Sen. Bernard Sanders is showing he has a real chance of winning South Carolina and crashing through the Clinton campaign's supposed Southern firewall, analysts and Democratic Party leaders say.

January 14, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bernie Sanders nabs The Nation magazine endorsement

In the latest sign the liberal establishment is lining up behind his presidential bid, Sen. Bernard Sanders on Thursday secured an endorsement from The Nation magazine, the first national news outlet to choose a candidate in the 2016 race.

January 14, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at the Charles and Romona Myers Center at University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa, on Jan. 12, 2016. (Nicki Kohl/Telegraph Herald via AP)

Hillary Clinton has Bernie Sanders on defensive over health care plan

Hillary Clinton over the past two days has launched an all-out assault on presidential primary rival Sen. Bernard Sanders' health care plan, arguing that voters in the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire deserve answers from the senator on how he'll guarantee health care to all Americans without raising middle-class taxes.

January 13, 2016
President Obama will use his final State of the Union address to map out his legacy, but those who want to succeed him will draw lines. (Associated Press)

Obama’s last State of the Union will lay out path for his legacy

With little chance of getting what he wants from Congress this year, President Obama plans to use his final State of the Union address Tuesday to try to set the agenda for his successor, insisting that if he can't win now, he will demand that voters keep it in mind as they select the next president.

January 10, 2016
TransCanada argues that President Obama "intruded on Congress's power to regulate interstate and international commerce" and blatantly disregarded the will of the legislative branch. Congress last year passed a bill approving Keystone, but the president vetoed it. (Associated Press)

Keystone builder TransCanada files lawsuit against Obama administration for rejecting project

TransCanada on Wednesday accused President Obama in a federal lawsuit of exceeding his constitutional authority when rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline and, in a separate challenge, said the White House violated a historic trade agreement, igniting an election-year battle over a project that most considered dead -- at least until the next president takes office in one year.

January 6, 2016
This campaign message for Democratic presidential candidate Bernard Sanders could easily be mistaken for one of Republican candidate Donald Trump. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders compete for voters’ emotional resentment, not ideology

For both Sen. Bernard Sanders and Donald Trump, striking an emotional chord with voters has proved more effective than formulating concrete policy proposals, and the two presidential hopefuls this week mounted public campaigns to steal the other's supporters by more effectively tapping into deep feelings of resentment toward Washington and Wall Street.

December 29, 2015