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Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.

Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.

Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.

He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, left, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Martin O'Malley talk the stage before a Democratic presidential primary debate, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Dem candidates struggle with Black Lives Matter movement looming over campaign season

All three Democrats seeking the White House next year fumbled when confronted by the Black Lives Matter movement this year, their campaigns acknowledged Thursday, but top aides to Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernard Sanders each argued that their candidates have learned valuable lessons from their mistakes. Published December 3, 2015

President Barack Obama jokes with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and EPA staff members who worked on the power plant emissions standards, in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 2, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama’s EPA ignores congressional mandate for ethanol in gasoline

The Obama administration backed off its so-called ethanol mandate Monday, dealing a blow to President Obama's promise of a green energy revolution just as he and other world leaders opened a new round of historic climate change talks in Paris. Published November 30, 2015

An globelike tent hosting an exhibition on climate is set up in the courtyard of the French Environment Ministry. President Obama will head to a historic climate change summit in Paris next week. (Associated Press)

Obama power limited at COP 21, Paris climate change summit

President Obama will head to a historic climate change summit in Paris next week with a fragile U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and analysts say the president is limited in terms of concrete promises and instead will act as little more than a "cheerleader" in the fight against global warming. Published November 25, 2015

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Reno Nev. Clinton wants voters to know she is no friend of Wall Street. But Wall Street has frequently been a friend to her. In the 18 months prior to her announcing her second campaign for president, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination addressed private equity investors in California and New York, delivered remarks to bankers in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and spoke to brokers at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida. (AP Photo/Lance Iversen, File)

Pro-Keystone union endorses Hillary Clinton, a pipeline opponent

Hillary Rodham Clinton's opposition to the ill-fated Keystone XL oil pipeline didn't prevent her from capturing a key endorsement Tuesday from a labor union that has been among the most vocal supporters of the project. Published November 24, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent and Democratic presidential candidate, speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on Nov. 19, 2015, about the meaning of "democratic socialism" and other topics. (Associated Press)

Bernie Sanders invokes FDR, MLK in passionate defense of socialism

Sen. Bernard Sanders on Thursday made a passionate defense of democratic socialism and forcefully denied that his political platform is a radical one, instead casting it as the logical next step in establishing the kind of America envisioned by past leaders such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. Published November 19, 2015

People gather for a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Paris attacks in the town square of Molenbeek, Belgium on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. After a Wednesday morning raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, authorities could not immediately confirm whether Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamic State militant, was killed or arrested. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

France bans public marches ahead of climate conference

In response to last week's devastating terrorist attacks in Paris, the French government has banned large public marches and demonstrations during an upcoming United Nations climate-change conference. Published November 19, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton stops by to talk to Drake University students at debate watch party after a Democratic presidential primary debate, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton captures key SEIU endorsement

Hillary Rodham Clinton captured a key endorsement Tuesday, garnering support from the 2-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) at a crucial moment in the 2016 presidential primary. Published November 17, 2015

A man holds his head in his hands as he lays flowers in front of the Carillon cafe, in Paris, Saturday, Nov.14, 2015. French President Francois Hollande vowed to attack Islamic State without mercy as the jihadist group admitted responsibility Saturday for orchestrating the deadliest attacks inflicted on France since World War II. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

For Democrats, Paris attacks put terrorism at forefront, may push climate change to backburner

Democrats increasingly have cited climate change as the top threat facing the world today -- even above the war against terrorism -- but Friday's deadly attacks in Paris surely will remind lawmakers and candidates of all stripes that the fight against radical Islamists is by no means over and represents a more immediate danger to people around the world. Published November 14, 2015

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)

Obama angers Democrats’ labor base with Keystone rejection, Trans-Pacific Partnership

President Obama's relationship with blue-collar unions has hit an all-time low, with several powerful labor groups ripping into the administration -- and the Democratic Party as a whole -- for its rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and its promotion of the highly controversial trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Published November 8, 2015

President Obama. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama rejecting Keystone XL pipeline

Ending a review process that lasted nearly seven years, President Obama on Friday rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, siding firmly with environmental activists and drawing the ire of business and labor groups who say the administration is willfully standing in the way of economic growth, job creation and energy security. Published November 6, 2015