David E. Hoffman

David E. Hoffman covered foreign affairs, national politics, economics, and served as an editor at the Washington Post for 27 years.

He was a White House correspondent during the Reagan years and the presidency of George H. W. Bush, and covered the State Department when James A. Baker III was secretary. He was bureau chief in Jerusalem at the time of the 1993 Oslo peace accords, and served six years as Moscow bureau chief, covering the tumultuous Yeltsin era. On returning to Washington in 2001, he became foreign editor and then, in 2005, assistant managing editor for foreign news.

Latest Articles

Obit Desk

The Wheeler-Dealer

Boris Berezovsky and Russia’s roaring 1990s.
Argument

Hey, Big Spender

Republicans like to say that Obama's gone soft on nukes. In fact, he's spending $213 billion more on them.
Feature

Fading Legacy

Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
In Other Words

How'd We Do Covering the Revolution?

Looking back with a generous dose of humility.
In Other Words

The Far Side of the Soviet Moon

Ten of Russia's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
Feature

The New Virology

From Stuxnet to biobombs, the future of war by other means.
Feature

Global Heroes

How the Cold War's wise men went anti-nuclear.
In Box

The Truth Is Out There (In a Library)

Forget WikiLeaks or Google. The state secrets that matter are waiting to be found in dusty file cabinets.
Argument

Biohazard

What the world doesn't know about germ warfare.
Argument

Take Reagan's Word for It

Why Republicans should embrace President Obama's nuke treaty with Russia.