Daniel Halper is an American political writer. He previously served as the online editor of the now-defunct
neoconservative
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The Weekly Standard
''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "r ...
'' until a management change at that publication in 2016 and from 2016 to 2017 was employed by the ''
New York Post
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[ Halper authored '' Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine'' (), an unflattering 2014 biography of the ]Clinton
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family.
In 2017, he became an editor for the Drudge Report
The Drudge Report (stylized as DRUDGE REPORT) is a U.S.-based news aggregation website founded by Matt Drudge, and run with the help of Charles Hurt and Daniel Halper. The site was generally regarded as a conservative publication, though its ...
, replacing Joseph Curl. Halper's hiring coincided with the Drudge family's retreat from the public sphere (Drudge's father sold his own site Refdesk the same year to the same company that also took over the ''Report's'' advertising account at the same time, and by 2019 unconfirmed reports had emerged that Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American journalist and the creator/editor of the Drudge Report, an American news aggregator. Drudge is also an author and a former radio and television show host.
Early life and education
Dru ...
had sold the ''Report'')Alana Goodman
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Biography
Halper is a graduate of Tufts University
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.
See also
*List of books by or about Hillary Rodham Clinton
This is a list of books and scholarly articles by and about Hillary Clinton, as well as columns by her.
Books are broken out by point of view. Columns about Clinton are not included, as they would be too numerous to list. Self-published works ar ...
References
External links
Column archive
at ''The Weekly Standard
''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "r ...
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* Official website of the book
''Clinton, Inc.''
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