About Laura Rozen

Laura Rozen reports on the world of foreign policy from Foggy Bottom to the White House, the Hill to Embassy Row, for Foreign Policy's reported, daily online column, The Cable.


Previously, she reported as national security correspondent for Mother Jones, the Washington Monthly, and as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Forward, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, National Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, the Washington Post, and on public radio programs. Her reporting has been featured on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," and on NBC’s "Meet the Press." She contributed the reported afterword to the memoir of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game: My Life As a Spy, My Betrayal By the White House (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Previously, Rozen reported for six years from the Balkans, Russia and Turkey as a freelance reporter, for publications incluing the Globe, Monitor, Salon, USA Today, CBS News and public radio programs. She has recently reported on assignment from the Middle East and Europe. She earned a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, with a concentration in international security studies, and earned her undergraduate degree from Tufts. Originally from Kansas City, she now lives in Washington with her husband and daughter.

She can be reached at laura.rozen@foreignpolicy.com.

Highlighted stories:

"From Kurdistan to K Street: Inside Washington's covert foreign policy apparatus, middlemen like Shlomi Michaels are key," Mother Jones, November 18, 2008. "The Operator: The Double Life of a Military Strategist," Forward, June 5, 2008. "Will Washington Get Engaged?" Foreign Policy, May 13, 2008. “Out of the Shadows: Former Israeli Intelligence Chief Efraim Halevy Explains Why He Advocates Talks With Hamas," Mother Jones, February 19, 2008. "Hollywood and the CIA," Mother Jones, January/February 2008. "The Scion: Kurdistan's Man in Washington," Washington Monthly, June 2007. "Condi's Conundrum," Washington Monthly, April 2007. "The Nonwar War against Iran," National Journal, January 18, 2007. "Cheney's Dead-Enders," The Washington Monthly, January/February 2007. "Watercoolered: Underneath the CIA's Glass Ceiling," Mother Jones, November/December 2007. "Freedom Agenda Proponents Depart State Department, Mother Jones, October 25, 2007. "GOP Heavy Hitters Pressuring White House to Talk With Iran," Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2006. "U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran," Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2006. "The Front: Hard-liners want evidence that Iran is up to no good. And they're turning to strange sources to get it." The American Prospect, April 2005. "The Revolution Next Time: Iran Moves to the Front Burner," Boston Globe, October 10, 2004.   


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