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Clay Risen

Clay Risen is the managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and the author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. He was a 2009 Arthur F. Burns journalism fellow in Berlin.
12/04/2009 Blog By Clay Risen
Why a Key NATO Ally Will Likely Sit Out the Surge

You win some, you lose some: This morning NATO announced it would add 7,000 troops to the alliance’s Afghanistan deployment, a coup for Secretary Clinton…

12/01/2009 Blog By Clay Risen
Germany’s Afghanistan Scandal

Berlin the city is bracing for its first winter snows, but Berlin the seat of government is in the middle of a storm of a…

11/17/2009 Blog By Clay Risen
In Germany, a Defense Minister to Watch

Angela Merkel may be the German chancellor, but the country’s most popular politician these days — and the man Americans should pay more attention to…