PERSON: James Kirchick

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James Kirchick (born 1983) is an American reporter, foreign correspondent, author, and columnist. He has been described as a conservative or neoconservative.

Born in Boston, Kirchick was raised in a Jewish family and attended Yale University, where he wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.

For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy. Later, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Prague.

Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award. Kirchick was previously a fellow for the think tank Foreign Policy Initiative. As the Foreign Policy Initiative was shutting down in 2017, Kirchick announced that he would be moving to the Brookings Institution in Washington. His role at Brookings was as a visiting fellow.

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