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William McGurn

William McGurn

Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

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William McGurn is a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and writes the weekly "Main Street" column for the Journal each Tuesday. Previously he served as Chief Speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

Mr. McGurn has served as chief editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He spent more than a decade overseas -- in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal/Europe and in Hong Kong with both the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. And in the mid-1990s, he was Washington Bureau Chief for National Review.

Bill is author of a book on Hong Kong ("Perfidious Albion") and a monograph on terrorism ("Terrorist or Freedom Fighter"). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds a BA in philosophy from Notre Dame and an MS in Communications from Boston University.

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Opinion

Long Live the Queen

January 13, 2020 10:53 pm ET

Elizabeth II is more modern than her woke granddaughter-in-law, Meghan Markle.

Opinion

Let Bloomberg Be Bloomberg

January 6, 2020 11:55 pm ET

Far from apologizing, he should defend what his policies have done for African-Americans.

Opinion

A Job for Adam Schiff

December 16, 2019 11:56 pm ET

The chairman should look into how he was taken in by Russian disinformation.

Main Street

The Attack on Asian-Americans

November 19, 2019 12:03 am ET

Progressives call these foes of racial preferences ‘the worst kind of Americans.’

Main Street

Free Lori Loughlin

November 4, 2019 11:13 pm ET

The feds are treating the actress as if she and her husband were Bonnie and Clyde.

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