Since 1974, our feisty bi-weekly bulletin has given independent-minded readers behind-the-scenes insight into significant news that is ignored by the corporate media. In the tradition of I.F. Stone's Weekly, we scour the big dailies, the newsweeklies, the foreign press, and specialist magazines to pull together vital information on major issues of the day, and strip it of the distortions of the spin controllers.

In concise and fact-packed reports, our editors and experts forecast and analyze the doings of Congress, the White House, Wall Street and your State House. For those fed up with media superficiality, we offer insightful commentary on issues of war and peace, the environment, religion, education, and economics.

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Editor:   Lou Dubose
Past editors:  Ben A. Franklin (1993–2005)
Past editors:  Tristram Coffin (1974–1993)
Associate Editor:  Lisa Vandepaer

Publisher:   Betty Russell:  bettyrussell (at) washingtonspectator.com

Board of Directors: President:  Hamilton Fish

Board of Directors:
Cynthia Brown, author, editor, civil-liberties and human-rights specialist
Leonard and Rhoda Dreyfus, longtime civil-liberties activists
Pamela Newkirk, professor of journalism, New York University
Betsy Reed, executive editor, The Nation
Jonathan Schell, author of Fate of the Earth, anti-nuclear activist
Ruth Shikes, co-founder, The Washington Spectator