World News Editor, The Daily Beast. Former Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor, The Daily Beast, author of seven books, most recently Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South. He was formerly the Paris Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine, and previously covered the Middle East and Central America for The Washington Post. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Wired and National Geographic. He frequently appears as a commentator on CNN, France 24, the BBC and many other networks in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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