Molly O’Toole is a senior reporter at Foreign Policy, covering the 2016 election and national security. Previously, she was the lone politics reporter for Defense One, where she reported from Congress, the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the campaign trail in South Carolina, Iowa, and New Hampshire.
Before that, she was a news editor at The Huffington Post. She has covered national and international politics for Reuters, The Nation, the Associated Press and Newsweek International, among others, from Washington, New York, Mexico City, and London. She received her dual-masters degree in journalism and international relations from New York University and her bachelor’s from Cornell University. But she will always be a Californian.
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