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William Kristol

Editor of The Weekly Standard

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.

Fred Barnes
Executive Editor of The Weekly Standard

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 is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. Mr. Barnes appears regularly on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume. 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.

Terry Eastland
Publisher of The Weekly Standard

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.

Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent, Washington Examiner

Byron York is the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. He covered nearly every aspect of the 2008 presidential campaign and transition, and now writes about the Obama administration. As White House correspondent for the National Review, York wrote extensively about the Bush administration and battles over the war on terrorism, national security and judicial nominations. He is the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, which traces the new political movement created by activists like MoveOn.org, George Soros and the liberal blogosphere. His work has been published in the The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. A contributor to Fox News, he has appeared on "Fox News Sunday," "Meet the Press," ABC's "This Week," "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," "The Daily Show" and other television programs, and has contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio.

Claudia Anderson
Managing Editor of The Weekly Standard

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.

Philip Terzian
Literary Editor of The Weekly Standard

A native of the Washington, DC, area, he has been a journalist since the early 1970s: Reporter and editor at the Anniston (Ala.) Star, Reuters, and US News & World Report; assistant editor of the New Republic; assistant editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times; associate editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; and editor of the editorial pages at The Providence Journal. During 1978-79 he was a speechwriter for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.

For 19 years he wrote a syndicated column, was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary, has reported from a dozen foreign countries, and been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Harper's, The American Spectator, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He has been a Pulitzer juror and media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Married, and the father of two, he lives in Fairfax County, Virginia.

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