Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens
	Stephens in 2015
Born	Bret Louis Stephens; November 21, 1973 (age 50); New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Chicago; London School of Economics;
Occupations	Political commentator; columnist; editor;
Years active	1995–present
Spouses	; Pamela Paul (m. 1998, divorced) Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim;

Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American conservative^[1]^[2] journalist, editor, and columnist. He has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations.

Stephens was previously a foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. At the Wall Street Journal, Stephens won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013.

From 2002 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post.

Stephens is known for his neoconservative foreign policy opinions and for being part of the right-of-center opposition to Donald Trump.

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^ "New York Times hire of conservative scribe Bret Stephens seen as move to widen readership". Fox News. April 17, 2017. While Stephens has garnered moderate praise from the left for being anti-Trump, he has written on other topics that may anger most Times readers. His views on climate change have created the strongest backlash, so far, with liberal site ThinkProgress questioning the hire on Wednesday and calling the writer is a climate science denier.

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[fox17-2] "New York Times hire of conservative scribe Bret Stephens seen as move to widen readership". Fox News. April 17, 2017. While Stephens has garnered moderate praise from the left for being anti-Trump, he has written on other topics that may anger most Times readers. His views on climate change have created the strongest backlash, so far, with liberal site ThinkProgress questioning the hire on Wednesday and calling the writer is a climate science denier.

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Bret Stephens
Stephens in 2015
Born	Bret Louis Stephens (1973-11-21) November 21, 1973 (age 50) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Chicago London School of Economics
Occupations	Political commentator columnist editor
Years active	1995–present
Spouses	Pamela Paul (m. 1998, divorced) Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim