Editor of the Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel.

Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Kristol recently co-authored the New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny.

Executive editor of The Weekly Standard. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for the New Republic. He is a regular commentator for the Fox News Channel, and has written for many publications including The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, and Washingtonian.

He was host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. Mr. Barnes appears regularly on Fox's Special Report with Bret Baier. From 1988 to 1998 he was a regular panelist on the McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Mr. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.

Stephen F. Hayes, is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard and author of "The Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice" and "The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America". He is a regular panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel. Hayes was a senior writer for National Journal's Hotline, and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, Salon, National Review, and Reason.

Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House.

Mr. Abrams joined the Bush Administration in June, 2001 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the NSC for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African Affairs, and the Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations directorates of the NSC.

Mr. Abrams was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., from 1996 until joining the White House staff. He was a member of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001, and Chairman of the Commission in the latter year. Mr. Abrams is currently a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which directs the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

His articles and book reviews have appeared in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Public Interest, and National Review. He is the author of three books, Undue Process (1993), Security and Sacrifice (1995), and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America (1997), and the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and "Just War" Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religion and American Foreign Policy. He has appeared on Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Nightline, and most major television news programs.

Mr. Abrams was born in New York City. He and his wife Rachel live in Virginia. They have three children.

With more than a million words of trenchant journalism under his byline and more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any other living writer, P.J. O'Rourke has established himself as America's premier political satirist. His best-selling books include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, Peace Kills and On the Wealth of Nations. His latest book, Don't Vote-It Just Encourages the Bastard, was published in September 2010. Both Time and The Wall Street Journal have called him "the funniest writer in America." He frequently appears on television, and is a regular panelist on National Public Radio's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Whether dealing with the inner workings of Washington bureaucracy, the shifting political and economic sands of the new world order or his own living room, P.J. proves himself to be a savvy guide to national and world affairs. His razor sharp insights never fail to inform and entertain, and audiences may be in peril of injury from laughter.

In the early 1970's, P.J. joined The National Lampoon where he became the editor-in-chief and created, with Doug Kenney, the now classic 1964 High School Yearbook Parody. In the 1980's, he decided the real world was funnier than anything National Lampoon's writers could invent, so he became a roving reporter covering crises and conflicts around the world.

P. J. O'Rourke is the best-selling author of fourteen previous books, including include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, Peace Kills, On the Wealth of Nations, Driving Like Crazy, Holiday's in Hell, and Republican Party Reptile. He has written for such diverse publications as Automobile, The Weekly Standard, House and Garden, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Book Review, Forbes FYI , Rolling Stone, World Affairs, and The Atlantic Monthly. He's known as a hard-bitten, cigar-smoking conservative (making him unique among contemporary humorists). But, in fact, he bashes all political persuasions. As he puts it, "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

Publisher of The Weekly Standard since 2001. He has written articles for the magazine on the presidency, civil rights, religion and politics, and the Supreme Court. He has contributed to numerous publications, including the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, and Commentary. His books include "Ending Affirmative Action," "Energy in the Executive," "Ethics, Politics and the Independent Counsel," and "Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases That Define the Debate Over Church and State." Terry is a native of Texas and a graduate of Vanderbilt and Oxford.

Claudia Anderson is managing editor of The Weekly Standard. Before the magazine was launched, she worked in daily journalism for 13 years--as chief editorial writer for Scripps Howard, editorial page editor of the Cincinnati Post, and editorial writer for the Buffalo Courier-Express. From 1975 to 1982 she edited books for the American Enterprise Institute. She has a master' s degree in medieval history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and is the author of Fools' Names, Fools' Faces (1996) and Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America (2007). Ferguson's most recent book, College U: One Dad's Crash Course on Getting His Kid into College, is just out from Simon and Schuster.

Philip Terzian is literary editor of The Weekly Standard. A native of the Washington, DC, area and a journalist for nearly 40 years, he has been a writer and editor at Reuters, newspapers in Alabama and Kentucky, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and was editorial page editor of the Providence Journal. For 20 years he wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service. During 1978-79 he was speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

Terzian has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary, Pulitzer juror, media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, traveling fellow of the American Journalism Foundation, and is a member of the American Council on Germany. He is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the New Criterion, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. In 2010 Encounter Books published his book Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century.

Richard Starr, managing editor of The Weekly Standard. Richard Starr has been managing editor of The Weekly Standard since the magazine's launch in August 1995. He previously worked as an editor at a variety of publications, including the Washington Times, the National Interest, the Public Interest, Insight, and the American Spectator, and as an editor and policy analyst for the Hudson Institute. He has a BA from Indiana University and lives with his wife and son in Arlington, Virginia.