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Ben Rhodes is a writer, political commentator, and national security analyst. He is the author of the New York Times-bestsellers After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made (2021) and The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (2018). He is currently a contributor for MSNBC News; co-host of Pod Save the World; a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama; and chair of National Security Action. His work has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.