# Washington Times A conservative daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., founded in 1982 by [[Sun Myung Moon]], the South Korean founder of the [[Unification Church]] (now the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification). The Times was created explicitly as a conservative counterweight to The Washington Post, with Moon reportedly pouring over $2 billion in Unification Church funds into the paper over the decades to keep it operational despite chronic losses. The paper has never been profitable but has wielded influence within conservative circles and the DC political establishment as a source of conservative-leaning reporting and opinion. ## Moon and Unification Church Funding The Washington Times' origin and continued existence is inseparable from the Unification Church's ideological agenda. Moon saw American conservatism as aligned with his anti-communist religious movement, and the Times was as much a geopolitical and religious project as a media venture. The funding structure — a foreign religious organization subsidizing an American newspaper — has long raised questions that received little mainstream attention during the Cold War era when anti-communism provided common ground. Moon died in 2012; the paper continues under leadership connected to the church's successor organizations. ## Editorial Profile The Times occupies mainstream conservative territory in its news and opinion coverage — hawkish on foreign policy, socially conservative, supportive of Republican administrations. It has been less ideologically extreme than Breitbart or Gateway Pundit but reliably conservative, with particular strength in military and national security coverage given its DC base. ## Notable Editors [[David Keene]] — former ACU/CPAC chairman (1984–2011) and NRA president (2011–2013) — was the Times' opinion editor and later a columnist, recruiting conservative writers to its editorial page. ## Current Leadership Larry Beasley serves as President and CEO, overseeing editorial and business operations. See [[Larry Beasley]].