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Andrew Ferguson reads the Trump-era bestsellers so you don’t have to.

Anchor Chris Wallace even attempted to hand the Russian head of state a hard copy of the recent indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the Mueller probe.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writers John McCormack and Michael Warren discuss the Dr. Ronny Jackson withdrawing himself from consideration to run the VA, EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt's grilling in the House of Representatives, President Trump's appearance on Fox & Friends, and the…

Yes, actually: A sensational headline, but accurate info.

TWS Fact check is aware that there are few things less funny than explaining a joke, but fact checking one comes close.

The controversial FISA memo, a GOP-drafted documents alleging surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign, generated an expansive array of responses from political commentators and pundits when it was released last week. After discussing the FISA memo, Fox News’s Judge Jeanine Pirro told viewers…

On December 18, a Twitter user with a large following tweeted out a conspiracy theory: The charges against Senator Al Franken, that he had groped numerous women over several years, were “likely a Roger Stone / FOX set up job.” Three days later, the user added a sensational twist: “I didn’t accuse…

In the months since Robert Mueller began sniffing around the White House for evidence of electoral misbehavior, President Donald Trump has watched warily to see whether the special counsel would sift through his personal finances. In July, he told the New York Times such an action would amount to…

My guess is that up until two weeks ago, the name of Harvey Weinstein meant little if anything to most people, including readers of this magazine.

My guess is that up until two weeks ago, the name of Harvey Weinstein meant little if anything to most people, including readers of this magazine.

Many mistaken beliefs left over from the 1960s are embedded in mainstream, which is to say liberal, American culture. As an earnest young lefty I was taught that generals like war, that businessmen like free markets, that Christians think everyone else is going to hell, and that Republicans are…

Many mistaken beliefs left over from the 1960s are embedded in mainstream, which is to say liberal, American culture. As an earnest young lefty I was taught that generals like war, that businessmen like free markets, that Christians think everyone else is going to hell, and that Republicans are…

Arkansas senator Tom Cotton blasted Barack Obama for his accommodation of Russian aggression over the past eight years and argued that Russia has committed "crimes and transgressions against the United States and our interests" while the administration "looked the other way." Speaking to Tucker…

More than two-thirds of registered voters do not want President Obama to pardon Hillary Clinton before he leaves office next month, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday evening.

Donald Trump's transition team has tapped Fox News personality Monica Crowley as "Senior Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council." Politico reported earlier today that Fox had terminated Crowley's contract in anticipation of her appointment.

Mike Rogers, the former Michigan congressman who chaired the House Intelligence committee for four years, is no longer working on the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump.

In an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier, Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, complained about the independent candidacy of Evan McMullin. The conservative former CIA agent and congressional staffer has been gaining on Trump in Utah (an historically strong Republican state) and…

During an appearance on On the Record with Brit Hume Tuesday night, WEEKLY STANDARD senior writer John McCormack discussed House speaker Paul Ryan's decision to focus entirely on House races and not campaign with Donald Trump. Ryan made the announcement on a conference call Tuesday with House…

Hillary Clinton is making a tactical mistake by focusing too much on Donald Trump and not enough on her own plans for her prospective presidency, Bill Kristol argued. Joining Brit Hume on Fox News Wednesday night, Kristol pointed out that his own experience as part of the losing campaign for George…

Senior writer Stephen F. Hayes joined Fox News on Tuesday to talk about updates in the presidential race and new Benghazi revelations.

Several Fox News employees have linked Ted Cruz to an anti-Donald Trump ad featuring the billionaire businessman's third wife, Melania, but it was produced by a political action committee that is in no way affiliated with the Texas senator's campaign.

Donald Trump said Friday that he will participate in the next FOX News-sponsored debate, scheduled for March 3.

Megyn Kelly is a good looking woman. I don't say this to objectify her, I say it because I have eyes. While it would be absurd not to notice this, that doesn't take away from the fact that she's certainly a capable broadcast journalist. I would not want to be in the position of having to answer…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on tonight's Fox News GOP debate.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump said in May that he would appear in all the Republican primary debates to hammer home his message.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with Associate Editor Ethan Epstein and Deputy Online Editor Jim Swift on whether Donald will show up at tomorrow's Fox News Debate in Iowa.

Before it recedes entirely into the rearview mirror, it’s worth one last look at CNBC’s debate debacle (debatacle?) which was, as my buddy Michael Graham put it, a trainwreck into a dumpster fire.

Since becoming the leading candidate for House speaker, majority leader Kevin McCarthy has been treated with suspicion by some conservative commentators. Sean Hannity is one of them, and in an appearance on Hannity’s Fox News program Tuesday, McCarty faced tough questions from the host about what…

When Donald Trump botched a question Thursday about General Qassem Suleimani, head of Iran’s Quds Force, it wasn’t the first time. He did the same thing last month during the Fox News debate, but his answer was largely overlooked in the post-debate hysteria over Trump’s answers to questions on a…

More than 200 elected officials, Republican and conservative activists, and business leaders have signed a letter to CNN president Jeff Zucker requesting the cable network award Carly Fiorina a spot in the upcoming Republican presidential primary debate. Fiorina campaign staff posted the letter on…

Iraq veteran Robert Bartlett appeared with Megyn Kelly of Fox News last night to discuss his opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran. Bartlett was severely wounded in 2005 in Iraq by an Iranian bomb, which also killed or injured several of his friends. Watch the interview below:

In the days before the Fox News debate last week, Donald Trump said he wasn’t looking to attack any of his Republican rivals unless he was attacked. That’s changed, apparently.

In this week's edition of the boss's email newsletter -- Kristol Clear -- readers are asked to rank their top three picks for the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee. The boss writes:

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley is deeply unliked on Wall Street, reports Charles Gasparino of Fox Business.

Last week, Fox News announced its guidelines for the first debate among presidential contenders endorsed by the Republican National Committee (RNC). The network plans to invite the top 10 candidates, with the ranking determined by an average of the five most recent national opinion polls before the…

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough pounded President Obama for criticizing Fox News at a poverty summit. Watch here:

Daniel Halper, online editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD and author of Clinton, Inc., joined Fox News host Bill O'Reilly Tuesday to talk about the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Watch the video below:

Plans for a one million dollar granite sculpture for the new U.S. Embassy in London have been scrapped because the sculpture was too heavy for the planned site. As THE WEEKLY STANDARD first reported in December 2013, the State Department awarded a $1 million contract to Irish-born American artist…

Fox News host Megyn Kelly encouraged embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams to come on her show for an interview. She said "the desire by so many to tear him down is also somewhat discomfiting."

David Axelrod defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright and President Obama's relationship with Al Sharpton in an appearance on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News:

Mike Huckabee signed off his final Fox News show by saying he's thinking about running for president. "Stay tuned," Huckabee said, alluding to his possible entry into the Republican field.

The latest episode of Conversations With Bill Kristol, featuring Brit Hume:

Online editor Daniel Halper appeared Thursday on Fox News to talk about the possible Democratic challengers to Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential primary:

The WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with staff writer Michael Warren on the Hillary Clinton book interviews.

Senior writer John McCormack joined Greta van Susteren's political panel Monday on Fox News to discuss the protest at the Bundy ranch in Nevada. Watch the video below:

West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin broke with his party's leader in the Senate by refusing to attack a pair of wealthy billionaire brothers who donate to free-market causes. Asked about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's frequent attacks on Charles and David Koch, Manchin told Brian Kilmeade of…

The WEEKLY STANDARD podcast, with executive editor Fred Barnes on the pre-Super Bowl interview Fox News's Bill O'Reilly had with President Obama, and how it shows what a bad job the White House Press Corps is doing.

Earlier this summer, Roger Ailes, president of the Fox News Channel, was honored by the Bradley Foundation. Ailes’s speech, delivered to a right-leaning audience at the Kennedy Center, was rollicking and well received, filled with red meat and barbed humor, and proudly pro-American. Liberals didn’t…

President Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, is "beginning to feel a creeping sense of personal remorse." The feelings of "remorse" began for Holder after he read an article in the Washington Post about how the Justice Department, which he heads, investigated Fox News reporter James…

Democratic senator Mary Landrieu said on the Senate floor that Washington's spending problem exists only on Fox News:

The boss, sitting alongside Kirsten Powers and Charles Krauthammer, made the case on Special Report Friday that Mitt Romney should raise the issue of Barack Obama's failure to be forthright on the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Watch the videos below:

The rock band R.E.M. released a statement on its website asking Fox News to stop playing their song "Losing My Religion." According to R.E.M., Fox News was playing the popular song during the Democratic convention.

I've gotten several inquiries about the poll numbers I cited this morning on Fox News Sunday.

Fox News reports on its latest national poll: 

Here's another interesting finding from the Fox News poll showing Rick Santorum surging nationally: Unlike GOP elites and large elements of the punditocracy, Republican primary voters are not eager to close down the race.

A new Fox News poll, conducted between Monday and Thursday, shows that Rick Santorum's primary and caucus victories on Tuesday boosted him in the national Republican primary race. Overall, Santorum has moved into second place, at 23 percent, behind Mitt Romney at 33 percent. Newt Gingrich is not…

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry sat down last night with Bill Kristol, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer, and Bret Baier for a roundtable interview:

In two television interviews taped for Monday evening, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain denied any wrongdoing as he tried to clarify his story about the allegations he was accused of sexual harassment while serving as president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the late…

Los Angeles Times: "White House lawyers could try to speed up or slow down the process of seeking to have the Supreme Court decide on the constitutionality of the president's healthcare law."

Orlando, Florida During Thursday night’s debate, Rick Perry was asked the toughest and most substantive foreign policy question of the evening. Moderator Bret Baier wanted to know what Perry would do first, as president, if he received a 3 a.m. phone call “telling [him] that Pakistan had lost…

In her speech to a Tea Party gathering in Indianola, Iowa on Saturday, Sarah Palin criticized what she called "crony capitalism:" 

Earlier this year, Fox News switched its polling firm from Opinion Dynamics to Anderson Robbins Research (D)/Shaw and Company Research (R), a joint bipartisan collaboration.

Last night, Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the controversy surrounding Newt Gingrich's criticism of the House Republican's budget. "This is a big deal," Krauthammer said on Fox News. "He's done. He didn't have a big chance from the beginning, but now it's over. Apart from being contradictory and…

Two U.S. Airmen shot in Germany, terrorist link probed

It's not exactly a secret that The Weekly Standard has many friends at Fox News. So we were a bit surprised to see the following story on Foxnews.com, 'Dishing Woes Don't Wash Away' by Mary Quinn O'Connor:

There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse, our ability to do our work here in Congress.

NPR's ombudsman ombudswoman ombudsperson Alicia Shepard has now spoken about the corporation's firing of Juan Williams. Here she is dealing with her chief concern about how this all looks:

NPR’s firing of Juan Williams tells you more about NPR than it does about Juan. What a stupid thing to do! You’d think the folks at NPR would be delighted: He’s a strong, mostly liberal voice on the most popular cable news channel in the country. But I suspect that was outweighed by their hatred of…

It's about as predictable as Alan Grayson airing a hateful, dishonest ad caricaturing conservatives, but alas, it's news because the president said it. The headline at CNN gets right down to the nub of Obama's criticism in a way that's a bit more explicit and creepy than coverage of his past…