Clifford D. May (born 1951) is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan policy institute created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he hosts the podcast "Foreign Podicy." He is the weekly "Foreign Desk" columnist for "The Washington Times". He previously served as commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that makes policy recommendations concerning international religious freedom, as well as the Chairman of the Policy Committee department within the Committee on the Present Danger. May was also previously a weekly columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online. May has been widely published, including in "The Wall Street Journal", "National Review", "Commentary", "USA Today", and "The Atlantic." He has served as a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and a newspaper/magazine editor, working notably for "Newsweek" in the 1970s and for "The New York Times" in the 1980s.