Leans right
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Launched in 1995 by the Heritage Foundation and now part of Salem Media Group, which was itself acquired by the Christian foundation WaterStone in August 2026. It is primarily a commentary platform hosting a large roster of conservative columnists.
It gives a wide range of conservative writers a stable home and a large audience. Critics note that it is an opinion site rather than a news operation, that its columnists are not fact-checked as reporters would be, and that its new ownership by a religious foundation is a structure without much precedent in political media.