Steve Clemons is Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of AtlanticLIVE. He’s a founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at New America Foundation, where he was previously executive vice president, and a regular contributor to MSNBC and other outlets on foreign policy and politics. Previously, Clemons was executive vice president of the Economic Strategy Institute, senior economic and international affairs advisor to former senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), and founding executive director of the Nixon Center (now the Center for National Interest). He serves on the GLOBSEC International Advisory Board and writes and speaks frequently on national security, politics, and economic policy issues.
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