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Jonathan Broder covers federal government and politics, foreign policies and military defense for Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Weekly, CQ Today, and CQ.com.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Broder does not wish to receive any story ideas and pitches. Press materials should be directed to CQ reporters, not the editors.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Prior to CQ, Mr. Broder worked for two decades as a foreign correspondent, Middle East bureau chief, and Far Eastern bureau chief for the Associated Press, NBC News, and the Chicago Tribune.[CR-LF][CR-LF]From his base in Jerusalem and Beirut, he covered the 1973 Middle East war, the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the 1975 Lebanese civil war and its aftermath, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, the 1981 imposition of martial law in Poland, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the Palestinian intifada in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[CR-LF][CR-LF]From his base in Beijing, Mr. Broder covered China's economic revolution, the political turmoil in the Philippines, the downing of South Korean Airline Flight 007, the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, and Afghanistan under Soviet occupation. [CR-LF][CR-LF]After returning to the U.S. in 1990, Mr. Broder worked as a reporter, editor and lecturer, covering foreign affairs, defense and national security for the San Francisco Examiner, National Public Radio, Salon and MSNBC.com.[CR-LF]His writing also has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The World Policy Journal and the Smithsonian magazine. [CR-LF]He is a frequent commentator on foreign affairs for the BBC and National Public Radio, and a regular participant at the Asilah Forum in Morocco, and the World Affairs Conference in Colorado.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Broder has won a number of awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists' Peter Lisagor award for his coverage of Afghanistan.

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