About the Writer

Laura Rozen is national security correspondent for Mother Jones, the Washington Monthly, and senior correspondent for The American Prospect. Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, National Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and on public radio programs.

Previously, Rozen worked for six years as a journalist in the Balkans, Russia and Turkey. She earned a masters degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, with a concentration in international security studies. Born and raised in Kansas City, she has lived in Moscow, Istanbul, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Kosovo, and Cambridge, Massachusetts for much of the past decade. She now lives in Washington with her husband and their daughter.

She can be reached at lauraatwarandpiece.com.