Byron York

Byron York is chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor. He has covered the last five presidential administrations, as well as Congress and campaigns since 2000. He is the author of two books — The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, an account of progressive activism in the 2004 election, and Obsession, an account of efforts to remove President Donald Trump from office during his first term. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and others.

York took a circuitous path to political reporting. In graduate school at the University of Chicago, he was working on a dissertation in American history when he decided to drop out and go into television news. He started as an apprentice video journalist at CNN and ended up a supervising producer at Headline News. He later moved on to serve as a daily newscast producer at stations in Miami and Washington D.C. — crime-heavy local news — before leaving to become a national political writer and analyst. He covered the Clinton administration for The American Spectator, the George W. Bush administration for National Review, and in 2009 joined the Washington Examiner. He has been a contributor to Fox News since 2006.

York holds a B.A. from the University of Alabama and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.

"I spend nearly all of my time dealing with daily news. It's hard to devote much time to considering how we got here, and how what I have seen and covered led to today's politics. A fellowship at IOP, with students, faculty, fellows, and guests who were involved in the events under discussion, is a tremendous opportunity to do that."