About Kimberley A. Strassel
Kimberley Strassel delves into the day’s headline news, affairs in our nation’s capital, and the fundamental importance of civil liberties, specifically those guaranteed by the First Amendment, to healthy democracies. Kimberley is a member of the editorial board for The Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials, as well as the weekly Potomac Watch political column.
Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Co. in 1994, working in the news department of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal’s editorial page, working as a features editor, and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Ms. Strassel, a 2014 Bradley Prize recipient, is a Fox News contributor and appears on the Sunday political shows on ABC and NBC. Kimberley is the bestselling author of Resistance (At All Costs) and The Intimidation Game. Her most recent book, The Biden Malaise: How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden’s Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter Years, was published in 2023. In The Biden Malaise, Strassel argues that Joe Biden, like Jimmy Carter before him, has mired the country in weakness, inflation and political unease.
An Oregon native, Ms. Strassel earned a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University.
