David E. Hoffman is a retired contributing editor at the Washington Post. He covered the White House during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and was subsequently diplomatic correspondent and Jerusalem correspondent. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Moscow bureau chief, and later as foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2009), The Billion Dollar Spy (2015) Give Me Liberty (2022) and The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (2002.) For more see www.davidehoffman.com