The Great Betrayal

James W. Carden is a writer based in Washington, DC. He served as an adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and as a policy adviser to the Special Representative for Intergovernmental Affairs at the State Department under President Obama. For a decade, Carden worked in the global currency markets in New York including stints at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. After the State Department, he covered the emerging war in Ukraine, and reported from both rebel- and Ukrainian-held Donbas in the early years of the Ukraine conflict. His work has appeared in The Nation, The American Conservative, The Washington Post, Responsible Statecraft, The Spectator among many other outlets in both Europe and the US. He lives with his wife and stepson in Washington, DC.