The Weekly Standard is closing after 23 years

The Weekly Standard — the right-leaning magazine that has remained doggedly anti-Trump since the president’s election — is shutting down after 23 years.

Staffers got the news at an all-hands meeting Friday morning that they were to clean out their desks by 5 p.m. The weekly will publish its last issue Dec. 17.
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“Despite investing significant resources into the publication, the financial performance of the publication over the last five years — with double-digit declines in its subscriber base all but one year since 2013 — made it clear that a decision had to be made,” he added.

The publication was launched in 1995 by News Corp., which publishes The Post, with founding editor-in-chief Bill Kristol. In 2005, it was sold to Colorado-based conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz.[color="red"] The publication in recent years was one of the few conservative outlets that was sharply critical of many of the policies of President Trump.

Kristol, most recently an editor-at-large, was an unabashed “Never Trump” pundit. Years earlier, Kristol had been a staunch backer of George W. Bush and the Iraq War.

https://nypost.com/2018/12/14/the-weekly-standard-is-closing-after-23-years/

Kristol was born on December 23, 1952 in New York City, into a [color="red"]Jewish family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kristol