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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

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

U.S. President Barack Obama smiles in the rain as he arrives for Republic Day in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama defends decision not to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu

President Obama blamed the upcoming Israeli elections for why he's choosing not to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March, saying such a meeting could create the appearance that the U.S. is interfering in Israeli political contests.

January 28, 2015
President Obama meets new Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, where he and the and first lady have come to expresses their condolences on the death of the late Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. Mr. Obama was mum on human rights issues in the country. (Associated Press)

Obama pushes gender equality in India, silent in Saudi Arabia

President Obama's method of handling nations with poor human rights records shifted dramatically in a matter of hours Tuesday, morphing from declarations about the need for sex equality while in India to public silence when he arrived in Saudi Arabia later in the day.

January 27, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama, left and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for the media prior to their talks, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Press Trust of India)

Obama to India: On energy, do as we say, not as we did

President Obama on Tuesday urged the world's third-largest carbon polluter to embrace clean energy, saying the broader international fight against climate change hinges on how developing countries address the problem.

January 27, 2015
U.S. President Barack Obama, second right, receives a scarf from a member of parliament who chairs the Committee on the Violation of Protocol Norms and Contemptuous Behavior of Government Officers, right, as first lady Michelle Obama stands left, during a receiving line before a State Dinner at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In India, Obama fires back at claims he’s Muslim

President Obama on Tuesday made a forceful case for gender and religious equality in India and used examples from his own life — including claims that he's secretly a Muslim — to make his point.

January 27, 2015
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Obama’s Alaska plans spark Republican ire

President Obama's plan to lock up Alaska's vast energy supply has sparked a furious backlash on Capitol Hill and prompted allegations that the White House has declared "war" on the state, but lawmakers have few options to fight back and even a Republican president in 2017 could struggle to undo the administration's latest environmental offensive.

January 26, 2015
Rising progressive hero Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the first-term Massachusetts Democrat, is being urged to run for president by leading liberal groups such as MoveOn and Democracy for America. (Associated Press)

Obama pressured by liberals to shift agenda further to left

President Obama has proposed two years of free community college for all Americans, pledged to defend Social Security and is looking to hike taxes on wealthy Americans, but liberal leaders are putting unprecedented pressure on the White House to go even further and fully embrace a more populist, progressive agenda.

January 20, 2015
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and an outspoken critic of Mr. Obama's foreign policy, said additional sanctions would reinforce rather than undermine the U.S. bargaining position with Iran. (Associated Press)

Republican senators vow more Iran sanctions despite Obama warnings

Republican senators vowed Sunday to pursue additional sanctions against Iran, brushing off unusually blunt and dire warnings from President Obama that any more penalties for Tehran would threaten to scuttle nuclear talks and possibly lead to war.

January 18, 2015
President Barack Obama meets with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Friday, Jan. 16, 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Growing fears about the specter of terrorism in Europe and the West are lending themselves to a sense of trans-Atlantic solidarity as President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met at the White House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama explains why David Cameron is his ‘bro’

As President Obama hosts his "bro" David Cameron at the White House, the American leader on Friday explained why he uses the informal term when speaking to the British prime minister.

January 16, 2015
President Barack Obama calls out to the media as he walks from Marine One across the South Lawn to the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, in Washington, as returns from Baltimore where he attended the Senate Democratic Issues Conference and visited Charmington's Cafe where he talked about paid sick leave for working Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Obama launches new clean-water, infrastructure programs

Days before President Obama's State of the Union address, the White House on Friday rolled out a new clean-water program designed to spur private investment to help rebuild the nation's infrastructure.

January 16, 2015
Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Wednesday came out against President Obama's new paid family-leave policy, saying the cost was to high for businesses. (Associated Press)

Obama paid family-leave mandate runs into Republican opposition

President Obama on Thursday rolled out a new family leave policy for federal workers and called on Congress to make it law for private-sector workers as well, the latest executive action from Mr. Obama's pen designed both to pressure congressional Republicans and to demonstrate the president will to act on his own if necessary.

January 15, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks at Cedar Falls Utilities in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, about steps to increase access to affordable, high-speed broadband across the country. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama calls for expanding broadband Internet

President Obama bit the hand that helped to fund his re-election Wednesday, criticizing big cable companies for holding monopolies in many communities and calling for faster broadband Internet service across America.

January 14, 2015