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Julia Ioffe
Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Julia Ioffe is a US politics, national security, and foreign policy reporter for The Atlantic. Prior to early 2017, she was a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine, where she covered the 2016 election, a contributor at Huffington Post’s Highline, and a columnist at Foreign Policy. Previously, she was a senior editor at The New Republic from 2012 to 2014 and a Moscow-based correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker. Ioffe has been a finalist for the Livingston Award twice: for a 2013 profile of Sen. Rand Paul and a 2011 piece on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. In 2009, she received a Fulbright scholarship to live and work in Russia.
Previously
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Galina Timchenko used to run Lenta.ru, a widely read Russian news site. When she was fired and replaced in 2014 by a Kremlin-backed editor, most of the editorial staff followe...
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The Trump Administration says it is “committed to a foreign policy focused on American interests and American national security” and that “the world will be more peaceful and...
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Is Vladimir Putin the master of his own destiny, or merely a prisoner of Russian psychodrama? Just seven years after Obama’s “Russia Reset,” Putin persists as a Western ally o...
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Featured Ideas Festival Scholar includes Liz Plank. A robust fourth estate is central to the education of an engaged citizenry and healthy democracy. It informs us, shapes our...