Type | Private |
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Founded | May 2005 |
Founder(s) | Thomas Lifson |
Headquarters | El Cerrito, California |
Key people | Thomas Lifson, Editor-in-Chief Ed Lasky, News Editor |
Website | http://www.americanthinker.com/ |
Alexa rank | 10,505 (January 2012[update])[1] |
Type of site | News & commentary |
Available in | English |
Launched | November 2003 |
Current status | Active |
American Thinker is a daily conservative online magazine[2] dealing with American politics, foreign policy, national security, Israel, economics, diplomacy, culture, and military strategy.[3] American Thinker has been mentioned in other media including Le Monde,[4] The Guardian,[5] Inter Press Service,[6] Campus Watch,[7] and the New York Times.[8] The publisher of American Thinker is Thomas Lifson, and the Political Director is Richard Baehr. Key staff also include Rick Moran and J. R. Dunn. Writing in The New York Times, Felicity Barringer credited American Thinker with initiating a public outcry over a California plan to require programmable thermostats which could be controlled by officials in the event of power supply difficulties.[9]