Michael Yon is an American author and blogger. He was embedded with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq until the end of its deployment in September 2005. Yon's dispatches were excerpted by several American newspapers, including the "Northwest Guardian", the "Boston Herald", "The Seattle Times", The "Star Tribune", and "The Weekly Standard".

Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.

Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard".

Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic.

Matthew Continetti is an American journalist and associate editor at "The Weekly Standard" whose articles frequently appear in the magazine. His book, "The K-Street Gang," was published in April 2006. His articles and reviews have also appeared in "The Washington Post", "The Los Angeles Times", and "Doublethink". He lives in Washington, D.C.

Andrew Ferguson is an American journalist and author. He is senior editor of The Weekly Standard and a columnist for Bloomberg News based in Washington, D.C.. Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at the Washingtonian magazine. He has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to Time magazine. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, …

Stephen F. Hayes is a columnist for "The Weekly Standard", a prominent American Neoconservative magazine. Hayes has been selected as the official biographer for Vice President Richard Cheney. Before joining The Weekly Standard, Hayes was a senior writer for National Journal's Hotline. He also served for six years as Director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, Salon, …

Max Boot (born 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American author, editorialist, lecturer and military historian. He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of "American might to promote American ideals" throughout the world. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor to "The Weekly Standard", …

Ramesh Ponnuru (born August 16, 1974) is a Washington, D.C.-based Indian American columnist and a senior editor for "National Review" magazine. He has also written for several other newspapers and publications, including "The Weekly Standard", "Policy Review", "The New Republic" and "First Things". Ponnuru was raised in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at "The Weekly Standard", as well as a regular contributor to The "Financial Times" and Slate Magazine. His writing also frequently appears in "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post". He was also a regular contributor to "The Atlantic Monthly" and "The New York Press" in the past.

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.

Matt Labash is a senior writer at "The Weekly Standard" whose writing frequently appears in the magazine. Labash has written some in-depth coverage pieces exposing such well-known individuals as presidential candidate Al Gore, who was the sitting vice-president of the United States at the time of the article. The reporter wrote a colorful, personal detailed story about the residences that Gore owned as a landlord in Tennessee.

Ellen Bork is acting executive director at the Project for the New American Century, a conservative policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Ellen is the daughter of Robert Bork, a former judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and failed Reagan Supreme Court nominee. From 1996 to 1998, Mrs. Bork was the Senior Professional Staff member for Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. From 1998 to 1999, she served as counsel to Martin Lee, …

Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser and director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute. In our view, Irwin Stelzer always seems to present a well thought out and sensible view.

Ronald Radosh is an American historian specializing in the Cold War. He is best known for his work on the espionage case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In the 1983 book, "The Rosenberg File", he and co-author Joyce Milton conclude that Julius Rosenberg was guilty of espionage and that Ethel was aware of his activities. A second edition in 1997 incorporates newly-obtained evidence from the former Soviet Union. Radosh also condemns prosecutorial misconduct in the case.

Jonathan V. Last is the online editor of "The Weekly Standard". Last has written for "The Wall Street Journal", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Washington Post", "The New York Post", "Salon.com", "Slate", "The Washington Times", "The New York Press", and other publications. He has appeared on CNN, Sky News, and the Fox News Channel. He is one of three writers at the "Galley Slaves" blog, …

Joseph Epstein (born January 9, 1937) is a Chicagoan essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's American Scholar magazine and for his recent essay collection, "Snobbery: The American Version". He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 - 2002. Currently, he is a Contributing Editor at The Weekly Standard.

Andrew Keen (born circa 1960) is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a critic of Web 2.0. In The Weekly Standard, Keen wrote that Web 2.0 is a "grand utopian movement" similar to "communist society" as described by Karl Marx. "It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer.

David Tell is opinion editor of "The Weekly Standard" magazine and usually writes each week's editorial. Following a decade-long career in government and politics, Tell became opinion editor at the magazine's founding in 1995. He is a 1982 graduate of Columbia University. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and two sons.

Victorino Matus is an assistant managing editor at The Weekly Standard . He has been with the magazine since 1996 and has written on a variety of subjects, including history, foreign policy, military affairs, and popular culture. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard and in other publications, including Policy Review , National Review , the Wall Street Journal , and the Washington Post .

David Skinner is an assistant managing editor at "The Weekly Standard" whose articles frequently appear in the magazine or on its Web site. Before joining the magazine in November 1998, Skinner was managing editor of The Public Interest. He has written for Education Next, Slate, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He edits Doublethink, a quarterly journal for young writers published by America’s Future Foundation, …

William A. White (born 1977), also known as Bill White, is the leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party and the administrator of the far-right, antisemitic website "Overthrow.com". The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups, …

John Simon (born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925) is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. Born in Subotica, Serbia, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.), and has been a regular contributor to a number of magazines, including "The New Leader", "The New Criterion", and "National Review".

Jack Cashill is an Emmy Award-winning American author and journalist best known for his investigative reporting on American government and politics. Cashill is a weekly contributor to the online journal "WorldNetDaily", and executive editor of "Ingram's Magazine" in Kansas City, Missouri.

Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of "Die Zeit", a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, …

Andy Kessler (born 1958) is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "Wired", "Forbes", "The Weekly Standard", the "Los Angeles Times", and "The American Spectator". He was Co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned US$100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001.

John Berlau is a Washington, D.C.–based journalist and author who is currently director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank. He has degrees in journalism and economics from the University of Missouri. He previously wrote for "Investor's Business Daily" and "Insight", and his work has also appeared in "Barron's Magazine", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Weekly Standard", …

Claudia Anderson, an American journalist, is managing editor of "The Weekly Standard", a conservative opinion magazine in Washington, D.C.. She has frequently written for the magazine, including articles that appear in the "Daily Standard" section of its Web site. Anderson's career includes editorial writing for daily newspapers, including jobs as chief editorial writer for Scripps Howard newspapers, editorial page editor of the Cincinnati Post, …

Tim Montgomerie (born 1970) is best known as the founder and editor of the ConservativeHome website. In 2003 Montgomerie was appointed Political Secretary to the British Conservative Party former Leader Iain Duncan Smith MP. The Guardian newspaper described him as a main influence behind IDS's theme of compassionate conservatism.

Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and journalist based out of New York City. He is the writer of the off-Broadway play <i>The Caterers</i&gt;, which was nominated for Best Full-Length Original Script of 2005 in the Innovative Theater Awards. In June of 2006, he was featured in Time Out New York magazine in an article on America's most important young playwrights and compared to Nobel-Prize winning author Saul Bellow for his "literacy and seriousness".

Robert V. Young, Jr. is a professor of Renaissance Literature and Literary Criticism in the English Department of North Carolina State University, co-founder and co-editor (with M. Thomas Hester) of the "John Donne Journal", and author of multiple books and articles primarily related to the study of literature. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at NCSU, as well as continuing to teach multiple courses in the department, …

Timothy Olsen is an American high school student and business author who at the age of 13 wrote "The Teenage Investor: How To Start Early, Invest Often and Build Wealth" which was published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. Olsen, who resides in New Jersey, began investing at age 8 and has since become an advisor on financial matters for children and teens.

Roxie Nicholson is a policy analyst currently working at the United States Department of Labor. She is considered an expert on welfare policy and has often been quoted by the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", "The Weekly Standard" and other media on welfare to work and poverty issues.

Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard and author of "The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America" . Before joining The Weekly Standard, Hayes was a senior writer for National Journal's Hotline. He also served for six years as Director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, Salon, National Review, and Reason.

Terry Eastland is publisher of The Weekly Standard and a contributor to numerous publications, including the Dallas Morning News, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, and Commentary. His books include "Ending Affirmative Action," "Energy in the Executive," and "Ethics, Politics and the Independent Counsel."

Claudia Anderson MANAGING EDITOR 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