Free Beacon Daniel Wiser

Daniel Wiser is an assistant editor of National Affairs. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in May 2013, where he studied Journalism and Political Science and was the State & National Editor for The Daily Tar Heel. He hails from Waxhaw, N.C., and currently lives in Washington, D.C. His Twitter handle is @TheWiserChoice.


Vladimir Putin

Russian Internet Law Could Threaten Security of Americans’ Personal Data

Moscow requires major companies to move information to servers in Russia by start of next year

U.S. power grid / AP

Report: United States Increasingly Vulnerable to Potentially Catastrophic EMP Attack

Previous estimates have found that an EMP event ‘could kill 9 of 10 Americans’

Bashar al-Assad

Assad Regime Profits from Abducting Own Citizens

Disappearances of nearly 60,000 civilians and bribes have become ‘a cash cow’ for Syrian government

Xi Jinping, Harry Shum

U.S. Tech Companies Partner with Firms Linked to Chinese Military

Businesses including Microsoft, IBM work with Chinese firms pursuing ‘civil-military integration’

Russia’s Propaganda Creating ‘Separate Reality’ in Eastern Europe

Analysts fear that that the Kremlin’s ‘weaponization of information’ could incite more violence in region

Islamic State Gains Ground in Syria

Terrorist group advances while Moscow, Assad regime, and Iran target U.S.-backed rebels

China’s Demographic Catastrophe

End of Beijing’s one-child policy is unlikely to reverse slower economic growth

U.N. General Assembly

United Nations Elects Dictators, Repressive Regimes to Rights Council

Ecuador, Venezuela join other governments on council that oppress their own people and stifle independent media

Twitter Accused of ‘Dereliction’ for Not Swiftly Removing Terrorist Accounts

Counterterrorism analyst says social media ‘platform has been weaponized by ISIS extremists’