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The truth is that Sarah Palin's current and most immediate struggle isn't against President Obama or the Democratic party or even liberals. It's against the GOP itself.
Kevin Coval | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Some right-wing blogs and pseudo-news organizations have churned the alarmist rumor mill about the J Street conference. What is disappointing, and troubling, is J Street's response: caving.
Nathaniel Frank | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Defenses of the military's gay ban have long been rooted in the moral belief that homosexuality is wrong, but its champions cast their defense of the policy in terms of the famous "unit cohesion" rationale.
Bill Scher | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Conservatives are straining to claim that the plain English version of the Baucus bill is completely meaningless. Which is, of course, all nonsense.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Why was the GOP so elated with Chicago's Olympic failure? Was it the joy in avoiding the inevitable cost overruns? The security concerns? Or was it enough that Obama had failed?
Barrett Brown | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Ten years after Denmark began allowing for gay civil unions, heterosexual marriage rate had increased by 10.7 percent. Ten years after Norway did, the rate increased by 12.7 percent. For Sweden, 28.7 percent.
Barrett Brown | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media
The Weekly Standard has officially abandoned Burke-Hamilton elitism in favor of Limbaugh-Palin populism, which, though a damn shame, was probably inevitable.
New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
The new ownership comes at a time when conservatism, especially the version espoused by The Standard involving American muscularity to spread freedom ...
UN Dispatch | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The Weekly Standard calls it a "Coup for Democracy." The National Review, "A Counter-Coup." But Ciff Kincaid wins the award for most unhinged reaction...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media
How can it be the so-called liberal media's fault that Palin gets bad press when conservatives were out front giving Palin bad press?
William Bradley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media
How difficult is it to send a Weekly Standard "reporter" to a National Press Club event and then assume that "reporter" can accurately quote what people said at the event?
Washington Examiner | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media
Clarity Media Group CEO Ryan McKibben announced today that the company had acquired The Weekly Standard magazine, which he characterized as "one of th...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media
FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told emplo...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media
News Corp. is near a deal to sell its right-wing political magazine, the Weekly Standard, to conservative media mogul Philip Anschutz, according to pe...
Think Progress | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
In recent weeks, a growing number of conservatives have hopped on the Rush Limbaugh bandwagon, saying they agree with his repeated statements that he ...
Chris Kelly | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media
Dear Arianna, you're so nice, and I feel like we have this good thing going, so this isn't going to be easy, but it has to be said. I told you a lie on Tuesday. But it wasn't my fault. It was Bill Kristol's.
Think Progress | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to d...
Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
The neocons, deprived of a John McCain presidency, have latched onto a new potential female savior. No, it isn't Sarah Palin. It's Hillary Clinton.
Politico | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
Since the Weekly Standard launched in 1995, there's one scenario the conservative magazine hasn't yet faced: Democrats in control of both the White Ho...
Weekly Standard | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
New York Times columnist Bill Kristol's latest article for the Weekly Standard ends on, of all things, a note of congratulations for Barack Obama: We...
Disgrasian | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Jeez. Can somebody please tell these dorks to do their frickin' homework before they go on television? If one is the McCain Campaign National Spokesman, one should at least do that.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media
Earlier this week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, performing at Northeastern University in Boston, criticized Governor and vice-presidential candida...
Weekly Standard | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
Jon Stewart recently spoke in Boston on Palin's comments about the "pro-America" parts of the country. Video below. via The Weekly Standard "She...
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Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics