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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

Unemployed lawyers sue schools over promises of jobs

Once the surest path to a six-figure salary and a life of luxury, a law degree in the aftermath of the Great Recession comes with far fewer guarantees, leaving many graduates with mountains of debt while confronted by a rapidly changing legal landscape.

June 17, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to the crowd during a campaign stop in Cornwall, Pa., on Saturday, June 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Lebanon Daily News, Earl Brightbill)

Romney: The campaign is about the country, not me

The Republican Party's candidate for president said Sunday he isn't interested in politics. Instead, Mitt Romney said he's running to bring the nation back from the edge of a fiscal cliff, not to achieve the personal goal of occupying the Oval Office.

June 17, 2012
** FILE ** President Obama is introduced by White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe before the president speaks at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

Plouffe won’t say if Obama will take part in leaks probe

As U.S. Justice Department attorneys probe recent high-level national security leaks from the White House, a top adviser to President Obama on Sunday refused to say whether the commander in chief will answer investigators' questions.

June 17, 2012
**FILE** Mary Kay Letourneau listens to testimony during a court hearing on Feb. 6, 1998. Letourneau, 42, a former sixth-grade teacher, was freed from prison in 2004 after serving a seven-year term for child rape stemming from her relationship with Vili Fualaau, who was one of her students at the time and who fathered two children with Letourneau. (Associated Press)

Student-teacher sex: Where does it end?

The cases seem to be popping up everywhere — and with alarming frequency. Dozens of relationships between teachers and students have been reported just this year, but analysts say it's difficult, if not impossible, to know what is media hype and what is a genuine national problem.

June 11, 2012
Sen. Jack Reed (left), Rhode Island Democrat, and Sen. Tom Harkin (center), Iowa Democrat, meet on Capitol Hill on Wednesday with college interns as they call for action on averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for students. More than 30 million Americans are repaying student loans. (Associated Press)

Obama to outline options for student loans

With Congress still deadlocked on how to keep student-loan interest rates from doubling next month, President Obama is set to unveil a series of small-bore measures designed to grant some relief to the millions of Americans shackled by college debt.

June 6, 2012
**FILE** Al Armendariz, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 administrator, speaks at a town-hall meeting in 2010. (Courtesy of YouTube)

EPA’s Armendariz of ‘crucify’ pledge a hearing no-show

House Republicans will have to wait for their chance to question former top Environmental Protection Agency official Al Armendariz, who became notorious for his pledge to "crucify" oil and gas companies in order to set a regulatory example.

June 6, 2012
Jay Iselin holds a sign as he and other protesters gather at the entrance to the Marriott Westfields where the annual Bilderberg Conference is being held, Chantilly, Va., Thursday, May 31, 2012. The Bilderberg Conference is an annual meeting of highly influential people in private industry and public office from North America and Western Europe. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Demonstrators heckle Bilderberg attendees

International power brokers arriving in Chantilly for the 2012 Bilderberg conference were treated to a rude welcome by a raucous crowd of about 200 demonstrators Thursday afternoon.

May 31, 2012
**FILE** A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site operates near Burlington, Pa. Natural gas locked in dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio requires a powerful drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release it. (Associated Press)

Shale study’s lead author faces ‘green’ backlash

Faced with mounting criticism, the State University of New York at Buffalo is distancing itself from a Marcellus Shale gas-drilling study released earlier this month by the school's own Shale Resources and Society Institute.

May 28, 2012
Young workers are having a hard time getting even entry-level jobs. McDonald's managers, who once hired a lot of first-time workers, now can choose older employees with more experience who don't have to wait until classes end to show up. (Associated Press)

Number of high-school students with jobs hits 20-year low

Did somebody say McJobless? The American job market is no place for students as the number of employed high schoolers has hit its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to new figures from the National Center for Education Statistics.

May 24, 2012

School officials fear a federal policy takeover

By expanding its "Race to the Top" education grant contest to the district level, the Obama administration has left some state education chiefs feeling elbowed out, saying Washington is trying to establish itself as the national school board.

May 23, 2012
Bikers make their way across the Memorial bridge from Virgnia into Washington during the 18th annual Rolling Thunder ride on May 29, 2005. The message on the clipboard reads: “Love never loses its way home.” Seven years later and now marking its silver anniversary, Rolling Thunder is bigger than ever. (The Washington Times)

Thunder makes itself heard for changes in law

Rolling Thunder's imprint on Washington goes far beyond the roar of hundreds of thousands of bikes on city streets each Memorial Day weekend. The organization has aggressively pushed a broad legislative agenda, with several of its priorities now the law of the land.

May 23, 2012
**FILE** Demonstrators outside the White House march in November with a replica of a pipeline during a protest of the planned Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to Texas. (Associated Press)

Opponents claim Keystone would boost gas prices

TransCanada's proposed $7.6 billion Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project that would transport Canadian oil to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast, has been pitched as a way to lower domestic gas prices. But a coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday produced a new study claiming the pipeline would have the opposite effect.

May 22, 2012
Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, N.J., said Sunday that current presidential campaign debates are doing a serious disservice to voters. (Associated Press)

Attack Wright? Wrong. Attack Bain? Refrain

The economy remains the driving issue in the 2012 presidential campaign, but both sides have in recent days taken detours to deal with distractions and ghosts from the past.

May 20, 2012