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“THE ORACLE OF AMERICAN POLITICS” — Wolf Blitzer, CNN …don’t settle for less. POSITIONING STATEMENT The Weekly Standard…don’t settle for less. Through original reporting and prose known for its boldness and wit, The Weekly Standard and weeklystandard.com serve an audience of more than 3.2 million readers each month. First-rate writers compose timely articles and features on politics and elections, defense and foreign policy, domestic policy and the courts, books, art and culture. Readers whose primary common interests are the political developments of the day value the critical thinking, rigorous thought, challenging ideas and compelling solutions presented in The Weekly Standard print and online. …don’t settle for less. EDITORIAL: CONTENT PROFILE The Weekly Standard: an informed perspective on news and issues. 18% Defense and 24% Foreign Policy Books and Arts 30% Politics and 28% Elections Domestic Policy and the Courts The value to The Weekly Standard reader is the sum of the parts, the interesting mix of content, the variety of topics, type of writers and topics covered. There is such a breadth of content from topical pieces to cultural commentary. Bill Kristol, Editor …don’t settle for less. EDITORIAL: WRITERS Who writes matters: outstanding political writers with a compelling point of view. William Kristol, Editor Supreme Court and the White House for the Star before moving to the Baltimore Sun, where he was the national In 1995, together with Fred Barnes and political correspondent. From 1985 to 1995, he was John Podhoretz, William Kristol founded a senior editor and White House correspondent for The new magazine of politics and culture New Republic. named The Weekly Standard. One of the nation’s leading political analysts and Barnes appears regularly on the Fox News Channel. From commentators, Kristol regularly appears on Fox News 1988 to 1998 he was a regular panelist on the Sunday and other Fox News programs. McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and the NewsHour with Before starting The Weekly Standard, Kristol led the Jim Lehrer. He has written for numerous publications, Project for the Republican Future. Prior to that, he served including The Wall Street Journal. as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the George H.W. Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Terry Eastland, Publisher Before coming to Washington in 1985, Kristol taught Terry Eastland has been publisher of The politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Weekly Standard since 2001. He was Kennedy School of Government. publisher of The American Spectator from Kristol co-founded the Project for the New American 1997 to 2000, and editor of Forbes Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan. He is a member of MediaCritic from 1993 to 1997. During the board of trustees for the Manhattan Institute for the 1990s he was resident scholar at the Ethics and Policy Research, and a director of the Foreign Policy Public Policy Center, where he wrote Energy in the Initiative. Executive: The Case for the Strong Presidency (1992). During the Reagan presidency, he served as Director of Fred Barnes, Executive Editor Public Affairs for the Justice Department. Before that he worked for newspapers including The San Diego Union Fred Barnes is a co-founder of The Weekly and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. Standard. After earning a B.A. from the University of Virginia, he spent several His books include Counting by Race (1979), Ethics, years with The Charleston News and Politics, and the Independent Counsel (1989), Religious Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. He Liberty in the Supreme Court (1993), and Freedom of joined the Washington Star in 1979. Barnes covered the Expression in the Supreme Court (2000). He has written TWS editors know Washington, know politics and have demonstrated a rare capacity for sensible argument and analysis. David Brooks, The Washington Post …don’t settle for less. EDITORIAL: WRITERS for a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Christopher Caldwell, Senior Editor Journal, Commentary, The American Spectator, The New Christopher Caldwell has been with The Criterion, National Review, The New Republic, The Wilson Weekly Standard since its inception in 1995. Quarterly, and The Public Interest. He writes a weekly column for the Financial Times and has contributed to Slate. His Philip Terzian, Literary Editor essays and reviews appear in the New York Philip Terzian has been Literary Editor of The Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Weekly Standard since 2005. He has been a journalist since the early 1970s: Reporter Victorino Matus, Senior Editor and editor at the Anniston (Ala.) Star, Victorino Matus is a senior editor at The Weekly Reuters, and US News & World Report; Standard. He has been with the magazine since 1996 assistant editor of The New Republic; assistant editorial and has written on a variety of subjects, including military page editor at the Los Angeles Times; associate editor of history, German politics, pop culture, and food and drink. the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; and editor of the editorial His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard and in pages at The Providence Journal. During 1978–79 he other publications, including Policy Review, National was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Review, Armed Forces Journal, the New York Post, the For 19 years Terzian wrote a syndicated column for the Wall Street Journal, Washingtonian magazine, and the Scripps-Howard news service, He was a Pulitzer finalist Washington Post. He has also provided commentary for for commentary, has reported from a dozen foreign CNN, C-SPAN, NPR, and the BBC. Vic is a graduate of countries, and has been a contributor to The Wall Street Georgetown University. He is currently working on a book, Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Vodka: An Illustrated History for Lyons Press due out in Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other 2014. He can also be found at vicmatus.com and on publications. He has been a Pulitzer juror and media Twitter @VictorinoMatus. fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. Lee Smith, Senior Editor Andrew Ferguson, Senior Editor Lee Smith is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, Before joining TWS in 1995, Andrew where he writes on foreign affairs, national security and Ferguson was senior editor at the Middle East. He has lived and studied in the Middle Washingtonian magazine. He has been a East and travels extensively to report on regional issues, columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and from Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria to the Persian Gulf. Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to A fellow at the Washington, DC-based think tank, Time magazine. He has also written for Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Smith is the The New Yorker, New York, The New Republic, the Los author of The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other Clash of Arab Civilizations (Doubleday, 2010). He is a publications. In 1992, he was a White House frequent guest on radio and television in the United speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. States and the Middle East. A collection of his essays, Fools Names, Fools Faces, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996, and Land of Lincoln was released by Grove/Atlantic in 2007. …don’t settle for less. EDITORIAL: WRITERS Mark Hemingway, Senior Writer Stephen F. Hayes, Senior Writer Mark Hemingway has written for The Wall Street Journal, Stephen F. Hayes is author of “The MTV.com,The New York Sun, The Johns Hopkins Journal Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration of American Politics and numerous other publications. with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered Prior to joining The Weekly Standard, he worked at The America.” A graduate of Columbia Washington Examiner, National Review, Market News University Graduate School of Journalism International, The American Spectator and USA Today. He and DePauw University, Hayes was a senior has appeared on C-Span’s Washington Journal, CNN, writer for National Journal’s Hotline. He also served for six MSNBC, Fox News and National Public Radio’s All Things years as Director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Considered. He was the recipient of a Gold Award Georgetown University. His work has appeared in the New journalism fellowship from the Phillips Foundation in York Post, the Washington Times, Salon, National Review, 2003 and was a Global Prosperity Initiative fellow at the and Reason. He has been a commentator on CNN, The Mercatus Center at George Mason University in 2003 McLaughlin Group, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and 2004. CNBC, and C-SPAN. Matt Labash, Senior Writer Jay Cost, Senior Writer Before joining the Standard in ’95, Labash Jay Cost writes the twice-weekly “Morning Jay” column worked for the Albuquerque Monthly, for The Weekly Standard and was previously a writer for Washingtonian Magazine, and The RealClearPolitics and a popular political blogger. Cost American Spectator. In 2002, Labash was received a BA in government from the University of selected by Columbia Journalism Review Virginia and an MA in political science from the University as one of “Ten Young Writers on the Rise.” Labash of Chicago. His most recent political book, Spoiled graduated from the University of New Mexico. Rotten, was published by Harper Collins in May. “Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard is consistently one of the best magazine writers in the country,” David Kelly Jane Torrance, Assistant Managing Editor Brooks, editorial columnist for The New York Times wrote in his December 25, 2007 column. Brooks named Kelly Jane Torrance is assistant managing editor of The Labash as one of the winners of the “Sidney Awards” — Weekly Standard.