Lara Seligman
2025 NextGen National Security Fellow
The Wall Street Journal
Lara Seligman covers national security for the Wall Street Journal from the White House and the Pentagon. She previously spent four years at Politico as a defense reporter, and before that she covered the Pentagon for Foreign Policy. Her reporting on the military and the defense industry has taken her around the world, with time spent covering geopolitics in real time in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. A Philadelphia native, Lara's work has appeared in publications including POLITICO, the Washington Post and Foreign Policy.