Mr. Fred Barnes

Mr. Fred Barnes

At Large


Fred Barnes is co-founder and executive editor of The Weekly Standard. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for The New 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.

He is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys on Fox News. Mr. Barnes appears regularly on Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998, he was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared onNightlineMeet the PressFace the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

In addition, Barnes hosts the weekly radio show, Issues in the News on Voice of America. Formerly, he was chief correspondent on the PBS series National Desk.

Mr. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University. Barnes is a member of Christ the King Anglican Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

To read Mr. Barnes’s Weekly Standard article on the resurgence of pro-life crusaders in America, click here.

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