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IMF/World Bank Protests 2000 (Krayeske)

    Kelley Beaucar Vlahos has spent the last decade as a political reporter in Washington DC. Currently, she is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine and its daily weblog, @TAC. She is also a Washington correspondent for the DC-based homeland security magazine, Homeland Security Today,  a long-time political writer for for FOXNews.com, and a regular columnist for Antiwar.com.

   Beginning her career in 1994 at the Connecticut daily, Torrington Register Citizen, Vlahos went on to nearly five years of reporting for the Greater Hartford daily, The New Britain Herald . Her experience there took her from town and city government and budgets to state supreme court cases, the Connecticut General Assembly, crime, cops, education, healthcare, economic development, local and state elections, music and arts, and politics at every imaginable level.

   Moving to the nation's capital in 1999, Vlahos took reporting jobs on both sides of the ideological spectrum, writing mainly about healthcare, families and mental health issues for the National Association of Social Workers News, and Capitol Hill and politics – including the 2000 Presidential election – for ConservativeHQ.com, before landing in the Internet policy and technology beat at the Washington bureau of Bridge News, a former global financial news wire.  She began her time at FOXNews.com in June 2001, and has since written about everything from national security and civil liberties in the wake of 9/11 to campaign finance reform, veterans, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Middle East, gun control,the Department of Defense, the conservative movement and the progressive netroots, the media and the federal budget. She has written over 100 "House Hunting" and Senate race profiles for the 2002 through 2006 election cycles, as well as coverage of the 2004  Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2008 elections and the National Republican Convention in 2008 for FOXNews.com   

 Today, she focuses on the presidential transition, domestic partisan politics and homeland security, as well as the current war policy – including returning veterans – and how security policies affect international relations and civil liberties at home.

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