Stephen Stromberg
American journalist
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Stephen Stromberg is politics and economics opinion editor at The New York Times[1] and a former deputy opinion editor for The Washington Post.[2] He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.[3][2] He is among the senior Post journalists who left the paper in 2025,[4] as publisher William Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos curbed the independence of its opinions section.[5]
His work focuses on U.S. politics[6][2] and government,[7][8] healthcare, the environment[9] and energy,[10] but he is also one of the few American journalists to write about professional sumo wrestling.[11] Before joining The Post, he covered American politics and economics for The Economist.[12]
An Eagle Scout,[13] he was raised as a Mormon and has written about Mormonism.[14][15] He grew up in Los Angeles[16] before attending Harvard University[17] where he was editorial chair of the Harvard Crimson.[18] He then attended Oxford University, where he was executive editor of the Oxonian Review.[19]
He is married to former Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, now a staff writer at The Atlantic, and lives in Washington, D.C.[20]
