- Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington.
- Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.
- Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl had been investigating the case of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and alleged links between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly boasted that he had personally beheaded Pearl.
- Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is a writer, editorialist and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. He took over as the regular writer of "Global View", a column appearing every Tuesday. The column was previously written by George Melloan who recently retired. Aside from his writings in the "Wall Street Journal", they have also appeared in "Commentary" magazine.
- Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College , Oxford , in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for The Times newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for Harper's , Vanity Fair and The Nation .
- David Brooks
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.
- John Fund
John Fund Born 1957 in Tucson, Arizona. Fund is an American political journalist and columnist for the "The Wall Street Journal". He also writes for "Political Diary", a daily column hosted at OpinionJournal.com. Fund's commentary is conservative.
- Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto, Fox's "money guy" (his words) is at times, as regular readers of this site know, very adept at creating the illusion that his show is about "business news" while simultaneously beating the propaganda drums for the Bush administration. Today he was at the top of his game.
- Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights.
- James Taranto
James Taranto (born 1966) is a Manhattan-based columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" and editor of its online editorial page, OpinionJournal.com. He is best known for his daily online column, entitled "Best of the Web Today", in which he links to and comments on news stories and Web sites submitted by readers. Most of Taranto's commentary is politically oriented and conservative/libertarian in perspective.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
- Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998.
- Marcus Brauchli
Marcus Brauchli is the managing editor of the "Wall Street Journal". He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1983. He succeeded Paul Steiger on May 15, 2007, who had held the position since 1991. Brauchli had previously held the positions of copy editor and foreign correspondent. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard from 1991 to 1992. He is married to Maggie Farley, a Los Angeles Times correspondent, and they have two children.
- Donald Luskin
Donald Luskin is Chief Investment Officer for Trend Macrolytics LLC, a consulting firm providing investment strategy and macroeconomics forecasting and research for institutional investors. Luskin is a contributing editor and columnist both for National Review Online (NRO) and SmartMoney.com. His columns touch on investing, economic and political matters. Luskin is a frequent guest on Larry Kudlow's CNBC television show "Kudlow and Company".
- David Ignatius
PostGlobal co-moderator David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist with a wide-ranging career in journalism, having served at various times as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He has also written widely for magazines and published six novels. Ignatius's twice-weekly column on global politics, economics and international affairs debuted on The Washington Post op-ed page in January 1999, and has been syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.
- John Harwood
John Harwood is an American journalist who is currently the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC and a Senior Contributing Writer for The Wall Street Journal. A 1978 "magna cum laude" graduate of Duke University, Harwood has also served as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He frequently appears on "Washington Week", a public affairs program on PBS hosted by Gwen Ifill.
- Walter Mossberg
Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27 1947) is the principal technology columnist for the "Wall Street Journal". His "Personal Technology" column has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He also writes the "Mossberg Solution" column each Wednesday (co-authored with his assistant, Katherine Boehret), and the "Mossberg's Mailbox" column on Thursdays.
- Richard Lindzen
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists. He wrote an op-ed for the "Wall Street Journal" in April, 2006, …
- Mariane Pearl
Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (b. July 23, 1967 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French freelance journalist, reporter and Global Diary columnist for "Glamour" magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the "Wall Street Journal" reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Of Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Latino-Cuban and Chinese Cuban ancestry and raised in Paris, …
- Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an economist and policy analyst who founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. He is currently a member of the "Wall Street Journal" editorial board and frequently opines on the pages of their Op-Ed section. He is also a contributing editor for "National Review". He possesses a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from George Mason University in economics.
- Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes is an American columnist from New York, who writes about politics and economics. She is an advocate for free markets. She writes a syndicated column for Bloomberg News and is Visiting Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her many appearances on television and radio include regular commentary on public radio for "Marketplace". Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.
- Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of "The Wall Street Journal", the music critic of "Commentary", and the author of "Sightings," a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Saturday "Wall Street Journal". He blogs at About Last Night along with Chicago-based critic Laura Demanski (who writes under the name "Our Girl in Chicago"), …
- Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (born 1961 in Lewiston, Maine, United States) is a magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. He is currently Wired's managing editor for blogs. Boutin has also written regularly for "Slate" and "Valleywag". He is a contributing editor to "Wired" magazine, and most recently a book reviewer for the "Wall Street Journal". In the past his work has appeared in the "New York Times", …
- Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.
- Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …
- Daniel Henninger
Daniel Henninger is Deputy Editorial Page Director of the "Wall Street Journal". He also writes a column named "Wonder Land" which appears every Friday. Like many of the Journal's editorial page staff, he generally takes conservative stances on politics, but he supports increased immigration and amnesty for illegal immigrants.
- Richard Posner
Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939, in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is one of the most influential living legal theorists, and a major voice in the law and economics movement, which he helped start while a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He currently serves as a lecturer at the Law School. Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, …
- Richard Miniter
Richard Miniter (born 1967) is the author of two New York Times best selling books, "Losing bin Laden" and "Shadow War" and is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism. He is also a fellow at the Hudson Institute, Washington Editor of PajamasMedia.com and a former editorial page writer for "The Wall Street Journal Europe". He has been published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", …
- Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow.
- Dean Takahashi
Check out my cool video. It's not really me. It's a synthetic me. A company called Mova captured my face and cast it in digital form. With their animation technology, they could get me to say things I never did. :) Look for this technology to appear in video games in a year or two. I am Dean Takahashi.
- Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley (born September 19 1968) is a conservative radio and television political commentator based in New York City. Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from Colgate University and a doctorate in international relations from Columbia University. In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon, a post she held from 1990 until his death in 1994. She was an editorial adviser and consultant on his last two books, …
- James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate".
- Bernard Goldberg
Bernard "Bernie" Goldberg (born 1945) is an American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Goldberg, who has authored several books, is currently a commentator for Fox News. His 2005 book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America", has received significant press attention. His brother is Radio show host Ira Goldberg.
- Stefan Fatsis
Stefan Fatsis (1963-) is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a regular guest on NPRs All Things Considered. Fatsis graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a degree in American Civilization and is the author of "Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland" and "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players", …
- Charles Murray
Charles Alan Murray (born 1943) is a controversial libertarian American race researcher. He is employed as a conservative political policy writer at the American Enterprise Institute. In the controversial book, "The Bell Curve", co-authored with the late Richard Herrnstein, they claim that affirmative action is a waste of resources because environmental interventions cannot overcome what they claim is the markedly inferior intellect of African Americans.
- Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague.
- Al Hunt
Al Hunt is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg. He is married to Judy Woodruff of PBS. Prior to joining Bloomberg News in January 2005, Hunt worked for the Wall Street Journal. During his 35 years in the newspaper’s Washington bureau, he was a congressional and national political reporter, a bureau chief and, most recently, executive Washington editor. For 11 years, Hunt wrote the weekly column, "Politics & People".
- Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah , a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly , writes Slate's "Chatterbox" column. Previously, he was an assistant managing editor at US News and World Report and a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal . Noah was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 1983-5. His most recent article for the Monthly was "Small things make a big difference" .
- Claudia Rosett
Claudia Rosett is an American writer and journalist. She is journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute based in Washington, D.C. Rosett has been recognized for her groundbreaking work exposing the corruption behind the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. As U.S. News and World Report senior writer Michael Barone explained: "The U.N. Oil for Food program, we learn from the reporting of Claudia Rosett in The Wall Street Journal, …
- Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer (born 1955 in New York City) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1995. In recent years, she has written extensive articles for that publication on Dick Cheney, the bin Laden family, and the US government's controversial policy of extraordinary rendition.