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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

President Obama addressed the country hours after a gunman killed nine and wounded more than a dozen at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

Despite Obama’s passion, little movement seen on guns

For the 15th time in his nearly seven years in office, President Obama last week consoled the nation and demanded action on gun-control legislation — but America's most recent mass shooting likely will serve as another reminder that the president's bully pulpit simply isn't powerful enough to drive change on the complex, contentious issue of Second Amendment rights.

October 4, 2015
A new EPA proposal would lower the current national ozone standard for automobiles from 75 parts per billion (ppb) to 65 or 70 ppb. Environmentalist are calling for even more stringent pollution caps. (Associated Press)

EPA tightens ozone standard, sets off fight with business groups

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday tightened the federal ozone standard, dismissing the concerns of powerful business groups and setting off a regulatory and legal fight that will last for the remainder of President Obama's time in office.

October 1, 2015
A new EPA proposal would lower the current national ozone standard for automobiles from 75 parts per billion (ppb) to 65 or 70 ppb. Environmentalist are calling for even more stringent pollution caps. (Associated Press)

EPA to release new regulations to restrict ground-level ozone

President Obama on Thursday is expected to take what many expect to be the most costly and contentious step in his ambitious environmental agenda -- the release of a gargantuan set of federal regulations to restrict ground-level ozone in the name of protecting Americans' health.

September 30, 2015
President Obama talks with Cuban President Raul Castro before a bilateral meeting, Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Associated Press)

Raul Castro’s speech spotlights divide with U.S.

President Obama hailed a new chapter in the U.S.-Cuba relationship this week at the United Nations, but analysts say realities on the ground on the communist island -- and the continued "Cold War rhetoric" of Cuban President Raul Castro -- demonstrate that the easy part of mending the bilateral relationship frozen since the early 1960s is now over.

September 29, 2015
President Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro in front of members of the media before a bilateral meeting Sept. 29, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama, Raul Castro meet at United Nations

President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro in New York City on Tuesday morning, further cementing the fact that the U.S. and the communist island are moving past the diplomatic isolation of the last half-century.

September 29, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin head into a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin, Obama spar over Syria at United Nations

President Obama and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin tried to downplay personal and policy tensions during a rare face-to-face meeting Monday in New York, but fierce disagreements bubbled to the surface in competing speeches to an audience of other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

September 28, 2015
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk through the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, for a news conference in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Cybersecurity deal with China called small step

President Obama claimed victory on cybersecurity after last week's meeting with his Chinese counterpart, and said he's received assurances China no longer will tacitly support the hacking of American companies -- but analysts say the deal is only a small step in the right direction and does not guarantee either nation will cease all forms of spying or cybertheft.

September 27, 2015
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama listens as China's President Hu Jintao speaks during a state arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Another visited Disneyland and Hollywood. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to the U.S. mid-September, 2015, is the latest in a string of visits made over the years by China’s leaders since formal diplomatic relations were established between Washington and Beijing in 1979. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama: Chinese have agreed to stop cyberattacks

President Obama announced Friday that the U.S. and Chinese governments have reached an agreement to not "conduct or knowingly support" cyberattacks against each other.

September 25, 2015
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy is sworn on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, prior to testifying before a joint House Oversight and Government Reform and Natural Resources Committees hearing on the Gold King mine spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) **FILE**

Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator, takes pope’s message on climate to Notre Dame

The Obama administration is wasting no time wrapping itself in Pope Francis's call for dramatic action on climate change, deploying Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to the University of Notre Dame Friday to again make the case the U.S. has a "moral obligation" to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

September 24, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with FIFA President Sepp Blatter during their meeting before the 2018 World Cup preliminary draw in the Konstantin palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 25, 2015. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

White House criticizes Vladimir Putin’s posture

The White House on Thursday criticized Vladimir Putin's posture and said the Russian president has perfected the image of someone who is laid back, perhaps even bored, during meetings with international leaders.

September 24, 2015
American Catholics are "concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and the right to religious liberty," Pope Francis told President Obama at the arrival ceremony in his honor at the White House. (Associated Press)

Pope Francis lectures Obama on religious liberty

Pope Francis called for American leadership Wednesday in combating climate change, embracing immigrants and caring for the poor, using his unparalleled pulpit to sound solidarity with President Obama on a host of issues -- but the pontiff also poked the White House on religious liberty, and insisted pro-life and family causes were at the center of his visit.

September 23, 2015