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Dan Ephron

executive editor for news [email protected]

Dan Ephron is the executive editor for podcasts at Foreign Policy. Before joining FP, he spent 13 years at Newsweek, where he served as Jerusalem bureau chief, deputy Washington bureau chief, and national security correspondent. His book, Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was chosen by both the New York Times and Washington Post as one of 2015’s 100 notable books.

Articles by Dan Ephron

Smoke and fire billow after a shelling on the Islamic State’s last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province, on March 3. (Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images)

Inside the Fall of the Islamic State

March 29, 2019, 12:37 PM

Workers spray contaminated houses within the “no-go” cordon around Chernobyl (Igor Kostin/Sygma via Getty Images)

Meltdown at Chernobyl

March 22, 2019, 10:46 AM

Eliot Higgins in December 2018. (Claudia Leisinger for Foreign Policy)

How Citizen Journalists Solved the Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

March 15, 2019, 12:00 PM

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom speaks during a news conference in Berlin on April 10, 2018. (Wolfgang Kumm/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)

Toward a More Feminist Foreign Policy

March 8, 2019, 9:20 AM

A guard watchtower rises above a perimeter fence of what is officially known as a "vocational skills education center" for Uighur Muslims in Dabancheng in Xinjiang, China, on Sept. 4, 2018. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

China’s War on Uighurs

March 1, 2019, 10:36 AM

People celebrate in Bangalore on Sept. 6, 2018, after India’s top court struck down a colonial-era law that penalized gay sex. (Aijaz Rahi/AP)

Inside the Battle to Decriminalize Homosexuality in India

February 22, 2019, 1:55 PM

The chef José Andrés stirs paella in a giant pan during the #ChefsForPuertoRico relief operation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in October 2017.

Paellas for the People

February 15, 2019, 8:58 AM

Afghan Taliban militants and residents stand on an armored vehicle

How the Taliban Won

February 8, 2019, 1:30 PM

People raise their hands during a mass opposition rally against President Nicolás Maduro, during which Juan Guaidó declared himself Venezuela's acting president, in Caracas on Jan. 23. (Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images)

Venezuela Unraveled

February 1, 2019, 2:14 PM

The Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington on Jan. 8 before a hearing for his lawsuit against the government of Iran. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An American Captive in Iran

January 25, 2019, 7:50 AM

Protesters demonstrating against the right-wing government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a rally in Budapest, Hungary, on April 14, 2018. Demonstrators demanded a free press and independent public media and new laws to ensure fair elections. (Laszlo Balogh/Getty Images)

Budapest Blues

January 18, 2019, 12:05 PM

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe speaks at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, on April 3, 2012. (Nellie Doneva/Abilene Reporter-News via AP)

Climate Change Prophet

January 11, 2019, 2:04 PM

(Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images)

The China Syndrome

January 4, 2019, 4:25 PM

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed presidential memorandum aimed at what he calls Chinese economic aggression at the White House on March 22. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Why Economists Hate Tariffs

December 27, 2018, 4:55 PM

Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

Are Brazilians Ready for Bolsonaro?

December 20, 2018, 2:46 PM

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