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The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis, and commentary that was published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard was described as a "redoubt of neoconservatism" and as "the neocon bible."[2][3] Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title on September 18, 1995.[4] In 2009, News Corporation sold the magazine to a subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation.[5] On December 14, 2018, its owners announced that the magazine would cease publication, with the last issue to be published on December 17.[6] Sources have attributed its demise to an increasing divergence between Kristol and other editors' shift towards anti-Trump positions on the one hand, and the magazine's audience's shift towards Trumpism on the other.[7]

This article is about the U.S. magazine. For the Zimbabwean weekly newspaper, see The Standard (Zimbabwe). For the Canadian weekly newspaper, see Montreal Standard.

Editor

Weekly

Terry Eastland

~50,000[1]

September 1995 (1995-09)

December 2018 (2018-12)

English

Many of the magazine's articles were written by members of conservative think tanks located in Washington, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the Hudson Institute, and the Foreign Policy Initiative. Individuals who wrote for the magazine included Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, John Bolton, Ellen Bork, David Brooks, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Christopher Hitchens, Harvey Mansfield, Cynthia Ozick, Joe Queenan, and John Yoo. The magazine's website also produced regular online-only commentaries and news articles. The site's editorial stance was described as neoconservative.[8][9][10][11][12]

Editor-in-Chief

Stephen F. Hayes

Editor at large

Bill Kristol

Executive Editor

Fred Barnes

Andrew Ferguson, Lee Smith, Philip Terzian, Senior Editors

Christopher Caldwell

Digital Editor

Jonathan V. Last

Senior Writer

Matt Labash

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