Editor of The Weekly Standard

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.

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.

Mike Murphy is one of the Republican Party's most successful political media consultants. Murphy has been called a "media master" by Fortune magazine, the GOP's "hottest media consultant" by Newsweek, and the leader of a "new breed" of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly.

Murphy has handled strategy and advertising for over 26 successful senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, including the successful gubernatorial races of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Dirk Kempthorne and Terry Branstad as well as the successful Senatorial races of Lamar Alexander, Slade Gorton, Spence Abraham, Jeff Sessions, Dirk Kempthorne, Steve Symms, Paul Coverdell, and Larry Pressler. In 2000, Murphy served as senior strategist for Sen. John McCain's Presidential campaign. In 2003 Murphy was senior strategist for Arnold Schwarzenegger's historic election as Governor of California.

In addition to his campaign work, Murphy advises several Fortune 500 corporations and leading interest groups. He has advised leaders in five foreign countries. He is a founding partner in the Washington DC based public policy management firm of DC Navigators. Mike Murphy is a frequent commentator in the media. For the 2008 election, Murphy is serving as an analyst on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert. He also writes and performs radio commentary for NPR's All Things Considered and has appeared frequently on CNN, MSNBC, ABC's Nightline, PBS and in many major newspapers. Murphy was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2001 he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's JFK School of Government. Murphy, 45, also works as a writer/producer in the entertainment industry. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

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 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.