About Salena Zito

Salena Zito

Salena Zito

Salena Zito joined the Washington Examiner in 2016 as a Western Pennsylvania-based columnist and reporter covering national politics and culture. She is also a weekly columnist at the New York Post, contributes to The Wall Street Journal and co-authored “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” with Brad Todd. In 2018, she won first place for her columns in the Associated Press for her coverage of American politics, and she also won the Barbara Olson award for excellence and independence in journalism.

She has taught journalism at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Washington and Lee University, and Hillsdale College.

She has interviewed every president, vice president and candidate who sought their party’s nomination on both sides of the aisle in the 21st century.

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Theodore Roosevelt Jumps Out of the Pages in Bret Baier's Newest Book Nov 11, 2025

MEDORA, North Dakota — Standing here this summer in the Badlands overlooking where the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is under construction, any person curious about the 26th president can be assured that this place will indeed cap... Read More

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American Folklore Is More Than Just Scary Stories; It Carries a Value System Oct 28, 2025

DONEGAL, Pennsylvania — It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over... Read More

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The Unconscionable Loss of Conscience for Virginia Democrats Oct 21, 2025

"The stakes couldn't be higher," Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an ironic post, coming 10 days after National Review reported numerous violent text messages Jones sent to a collea... Read More

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What Democrats Are Missing in Trying to Recapture Young People Oct 14, 2025

BALDWIN, Pennsylvania — Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed neatly in a suit with his curly hair neatly cropped. Four years ago, you would not have seen th... Read More